Computers are imperative to the core! The silicon in your CPU implements the mechanisms of executing instructions which in turn manipulate data in registers, m

Computers are imperative to the core! The silicon in your CPU implements the mechanisms of executing instructions which in turn manipulate data in registers, memory and persistent storage. Everything else is implemented in layer upon layers of abstraction on top of this imperative core. With a bossy human and a subservient sliver of silicon the imperative is "imperative". All that which gets in the middle can either smooth the way or get us tied up in knots.