@inbook{lampson2010declarative,
author = {Lampson, Butler},
title = {Declarative programming: The light at the end of the tunnel},
booktitle = {Points of View: A Tribute to Alan Kay},
year = {2010},
month = {May},
abstract = {What is declarative programming? We want to be able to tell the computer what to do, easily and reliably. But natively it makes very small changes to a state of a few gigabytes. My best definition: a declarative program doesn’t have very many steps. Some examples: spreadsheets, SQL queries, parser generators, streaming data flow systems, mashups, Mathematica.

Successful declarative systems usually have a few things in common: They are a good match to the user’s view of the problem, they are compositional, they give you big primitives, and they have clean escape hatches.},
publisher = {Viewpoints Research Institute},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/declarative-programming-light-end-tunnel/},
pages = {151-163},
isbn = {978-0974313115},
}