Declarative programming is just the tip of the iceberg!

How about multidimensional declarative programming based on intensional logic with Lucid. Or Concurrent Distributed Progamming of Soft Real-Time Systems in Erlang.

And who could forget our wonderfully esoteric friends, the functional programmers. I think John Backus said it all in his 1977 Turning Award Lecture, when he uttered:

(/+) ° (α×) ° Trans.

Which is much better than the good ole von Neumann style:

c := 0
for i := 1 step 1 until n do
    c:= c + a[i] * b[i]
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But seriously FP is the bomb! Not a variable in sight.

And nothing, but nothing matches the power, poise and sophisitcation of APL.

PRIMES : (~RεR°.×R)/R←1↓⌊R

(see this mess explained here)

-stvn

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