>neither of these statements will be absolutes - there are situations and times where a declarative language user will worry about how the query planner will ex

>neither of these statements will be absolutes - there are situations and times where a declarative language user will worry about how the query planner will execute, and there are times where an imperative language user will write very much declarative code. That's right, in practice everything is more like a mishmash of everything. Your function library could be seen as a declarative language over the top of a generic language.