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There's a term that's gaining popularity in the last 15 years: reactive paradigm of programming.

• wutbrodo 7y ago
  Is what we're talking about any different from declarative programming? That term has been in use for several decades
  • chewxy 7y ago
    The portion of comment I was replying to was "no start or end" . This is reactive programming. Having said that, other than Excel and some cute UI things, I've not seen much utility in reactive paradigms. Hence I am bearish on reactive programming. Someone please correct me.
  • dymk 7y ago
    Reactive programs don't have to be declarative. You can express a reactive program imperatively. The defining feature of a reactive program is that relationships between inputs and outputs are automatically tracked, and changing an input will automatically update the dependent outputs. Facebook had a whole experimental language (now abandoned) for writing reactive programs with imperative code: http://skiplang.com/ http://skiplang.com/