Code is what, not how



Code is known to be written something by programmers for computers to do some tasks.

Currently commanding by a language which is near to computers is not necessary for most use-cases. When we create a file on a disk, in most use cases we do not care how this process is carried out. When we fetch an URL’s content, we enjoy concise statements like ‘fetch_content(url)’, get_url_content(url)’.

We are not interested in how, but what. We are migrating from the imperative paradigm to the declarative one. So that we invented high level languages such as Python, C#, Java, PHP; which are more similar to a natural language.

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