Declarative in a sentence as a noun

So, over the years I've played with many things that claim to be "declarative", and here's why I now shy away from them like the plague.

In my experience, Haskell code tends to be more concise and declarative than Go or Python, making it easier to read.

Trying to create a declarative language is a way of making it extraordinarily opaque as to what the machine is actually going to do.

Declarative in a sentence as an adjective

This property of declarative languages in general and pure functional programming in particular means that the program can be assumed to do exactly what it says on the tin and no more.

But I didn't have to re-learn old concepts and the changes were incremental instead of revolutionary; and the whole shift from declarative programming to functional languages is not new as you've learned Haskell/Lisp in undergrad anyways.

The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects.

Declarative definitions

noun

a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact

See also: indicative

adjective

relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration

See also: declaratory

adjective

relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements; "indicative mood"

See also: indicative