Your application is the M. It should be able to stand independent from V and C. V and C form the User Interface to your application. Whether this is a web interface or a command line interface shouldn’t matter for the core business logic of your application to run. You want the model to be … Read more
Why “vs”? It is not “vs”. You can use Aspect Oriented programming in combination with functional programming, but also in combination with Object Oriented one. It is not “vs”, it is “Aspect Oriented Programming with Object Oriented Programming”. To me AOP is some kind of “meta-programming”. Everything that AOP does could also be done without … Read more
A functional language (ideally) allows you to write a mathematical function, i.e. a function that takes n arguments and returns a value. If the program is executed, this function is logically evaluated as needed.1 A procedural language, on the other hand, performs a series of sequential steps. (There’s a way of transforming sequential logic into … Read more
All of them are good in their own ways – They’re simply different approaches to the same problems. In a purely procedural style, data tends to be highly decoupled from the functions that operate on it. In an object oriented style, data tends to carry with it a collection of functions. In a functional style, … Read more
At the time of writing this, the top voted answers on this page are imprecise and muddled on the declarative vs. imperative definition, including the answer that quotes Wikipedia. Some answers are conflating the terms in different ways. Refer also to my explanation of why spreadsheet programming is declarative, regardless that the formulas mutate the … Read more
AOP addresses the problem of cross-cutting concerns, which would be any kind of code that is repeated in different methods and can’t normally be completely refactored into its own module, like with logging or verification. So, with AOP you can leave that stuff out of the main code and define it vertically like so: function … Read more
A great C# example of declarative vs. imperative programming is LINQ. With imperative programming, you tell the compiler what you want to happen, step by step. For example, let’s start with this collection, and choose the odd numbers: List<int> collection = new List<int> { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 }; With imperative programming, we’d step … Read more
When do you choose functional programming over object oriented? When you anticipate a different kind of software evolution: Object-oriented languages are good when you have a fixed set of operations on things, and as your code evolves, you primarily add new things. This can be accomplished by adding new classes which implement existing methods, and … Read more
What is it? I think the definition in your answer covers this question well. Although, I question why the definition includes that a component needs to explicitly define its dependencies. A canonical example of a component is an ActiveX control – do they need to explicitly define their dependencies? What problems does it solve? Management … Read more
Double-checking locking now works in Java as well as C# (the Java memory model changed and this is one of the effects). However, you have to get it exactly right. If you mess things up even slightly, you may well end up losing the thread safety. As other answers have stated, if you’re implementing the … Read more