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Or you get wire wheels with a spinner that comes off if you don't tighten it enough. See Alpines and MGs. Well, at least in Britain. In America, we use nails and bolts. They never come off. Ever. The declarative vs procedural bit is more interesting though. That can't just be a trend. There are tradeoffs there. Is it a lifecycle phase? It seems to me that things start out procedural and only become declarative at the point where the data is reasonably known and scoped. This should be particularly true of standards where getting it wrong early has a cost later in that the tree gets very bushy with variants. That is the position the youngun's are taking on the X3D list and given our experience with premature standards, it is hard to disagree. So is the reason that procedural is more flexible and it is better to keep it complicated until simplification is obvious (which would contradict the more trendy programming methods of late)? Save the 'its always a mix anyway' thread killers until someone really can't figure this one out. That's an admission there is no difference. Any takers? len From: Michael Champion [mailto:mc@x...] Yeah, but as Douglas Crockford so memorably put it "The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one." http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/scripting-news-for-12202006/#comme nt-26383 Each generation of this stuff is a bit rounder. > On the other hand, I wonder about everything becoming declarative. It seems reasonable > to those of us who are old enough to remember ... Agreed. The declarative vs procedural discussion has been hot on and off since at least the 1970s http://search.live.com/results.aspx?FORM=&q=declarative+procedural+controver sy http://www.google.com/search?q=declarative+procedural+controversy Web 1.0 pushed the pendulum toward the declarative (SQL + XSLT) side, Web 2.0 made the world safe for imperative Javascript, now XQueryP is proposed to nudge XQuery in the imperative direction and LINQ is moving C# and VB in the declarative direction. That thing isn't going to stop swinging anytime soon.
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