> Do you agree that a declarative description is like a procedural
description but with less detail?

Definitely not.

If the "less detail" is sufficient for finding the solution to the problem,
then any other solution that needs "more detail" is obviously sub-optimal
and may be incorrect.

It doesn't matter if one solution is "declarative" or the other is
"procedural" -- the above stands true for any two solutions, regardless of
how they have been labeled.

Thanks,
Dimitre

On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 10:53b/AM Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Someone sent me this response:
>
> "A declarative description seems to me like just a procedural description
> but with less detail: it's a continuum rather than a sharp dichotomy.  I
> see no obvious limit to how "declarative" we could make things,
> particularly as AI gets better and better at anticipating what we want.
> Like, maybe you'll just say to GPT-8, "write me a first-person shooter game
> where I get to battle a 7-headed hydra," and it will fill in all the
> details, asking you clarification questions as needed."
>
> Do you agree that a declarative description is like a procedural
> description but with less detail?
>
> /Roger