top | item 32695774 (no title) HowTheStoryEnds | 3 years ago Would you consider lisp to be (possibly) declarative? discuss order hn newest theCodeStig|3 years ago Not all lisps are declarative, but a lisp certainly can be declarative. ghoward|3 years ago No, it is Turing-complete.I was going off of the article and Nix documentation that says Nix is declarative. But if it actually is not, then there shouldn't be a problem with power.However, Nix proponents shouldn't claim it is declarative either. theCodeStig|3 years ago Laziness, and purely functional go a long way toward declarative. load replies (1)
ghoward|3 years ago No, it is Turing-complete.I was going off of the article and Nix documentation that says Nix is declarative. But if it actually is not, then there shouldn't be a problem with power.However, Nix proponents shouldn't claim it is declarative either. theCodeStig|3 years ago Laziness, and purely functional go a long way toward declarative. load replies (1)
theCodeStig|3 years ago Laziness, and purely functional go a long way toward declarative. load replies (1)
theCodeStig|3 years ago
ghoward|3 years ago
I was going off of the article and Nix documentation that says Nix is declarative. But if it actually is not, then there shouldn't be a problem with power.
However, Nix proponents shouldn't claim it is declarative either.
theCodeStig|3 years ago