Labels:book | chat room | hakham | monitor OCR: COMPUTER PROGRAMMING 713 SECTION Declarative Programming AS THE 1950s drew to a close computers were primarily used for number -crunching tasks, such as calculating missile trajectories tabulating census data and processing payrolls. few visionary computer scientists saw beyond these limited number- --crunching applications and began to explore ways in which computers could Imake decisions and solve problems by manipulating non-numeric data including words and concepts Procedural programming languages, such as Fortran and COBOL did not have the flexibility to deal efficiently with non-numeric data so non- proce- dural languages were developed This section explains type of f non-pro- cedural programming that follows the declarative paradigm and gives you a little taste of the Prolog languag ...
