declarative language

programming language intended for declarative statements (statements that are for the compiler and NOT part of the actual program - such as DDL)

A declarative programming language is a high-level language that describes a problem rather than defining a solution — it makes use of  declarative programming. A declarative programming language says "what", while an imperative programming language says "how". The term is not entirely clear and often controversial; it is sometimes used as a buzzword.
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A general term for a relational language or a functional language, as opposed to an imperative language. Imperative (or procedural) languages specify explicit sequences of steps to follow to produce a result, while declarative languages describe relationships between variables in terms of functions or inference rules and the language executor (interpreter or compiler) applies some fixed algorithm to these relations to produce a result. The most common examples of declarative languages are logic programming languages such as Prolog and functional languages like Haskell.
See also production system.
(1994-11-23)