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stereobooster • Edited

Yes. They are "Descriptive declarative programming".

We define programming, as a general human activity, to mean the act of extending or changing a system’s functionality.

e.g. any language which can be used for "extending or changing a system’s functionality" is programming language. You have empty page in the browser if html file is empty, you add some tags, and page has some new behaviour, you changed behaviour of the "system". Congrats you did the programming.

The principal programming paradigms