November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
670 pages
17h 35m
English
Content preview from Learning Functional Programming in Go
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Programming language categories
Here, we can see four categories of programming languages. The two big categories are imperative and declarative. When programming in a declarative language, we tell the computer what we want. For example, in the following declarative code, we tell the computer that we want to find a Highlander car.