Hi Dale!

Quite interesting. Good example for "declarative programming" is Mustache:

http://mustache.github.com/mustache.5.html

It generally makes cross platform programming easier! :-)

Have fun!

Guido Stepken

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> Karl,
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> I invite you to read Allen Wirfs-Brock's paper on "Declarative Smalltalk"[1]
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> Disclaimer: I worked with Allen Wirfs-Brock in the nineties (engineer on the Team/V team) while he was developing his ideas for Declarative Smalltalk, so I am somewhat biased in my thinking:)
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> My opinion that being able to build images from scratch (easily and reproducibly) is a "requirement" to get in the door ��for mainstream projects... giving mainstream developers the opportunity to work in a image-based environment will set them free:)
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> Dale
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> [1] http://www.smalltalksystems.com/publications/_awss97/SSDCL1.HTM