Declarative Programming

From APIDesign

Have You Ever Wondered...?

You have just scared us with runtime implications of APIs, is there a way to minimize their impact? Is there a way to prevent race conditions, deadlocks, etc.? Yes, as far as I know there are two ways. Either prevent shared access to data, objects, structures, resources or allow it. The chapter 12 explains how to do that with a little help of Declarative Programming. Declarative Programming!? Is there something like that? Well, that is indeed good question, which the chapter 12 analyses as well and it even suggest some good forms to use for this style of APIs.