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Complex declarative programming capabilities are provided through an underlying procedural programming code by functionally providing the selection algorithm of known declarative processing arrangements in explicit conditional constructs in procedural language embodying a rule or rule function state

Complex declarative programming capabilities are provided through an underlying procedural programming code by functionally providing the selection algorithm of known declarative processing arrangements in explicit conditional constructs in procedural language embodying a rule or rule function statement. This approach simultaneously provides declarative processes easily and simply in a relatively few lines of procedural code while isolating the processing to the rules and objects, themselves, thereby providing reduction in hardware overhead requirements and performance enhancements which will be more fully discussed below. Further, by providing for updating of attributes and relationships of objects together with time tags associated with the update and removal of objects from list for evaluation, imprecise evaluation and heuristic reasoning may be readily developed while providing further performance enhancements to known Lazy Evaluation procedures.

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[ Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:] [1.] A computing system for generating and utilizing a declarative programming extension for a procedural programming language, comprising:means for generating a program, using syntax and

[ Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:] [1.] A computing system for generating and utilizing a declarative programming extension for a procedural programming language, comprising:means for generating a program, using syntax and development tools of the procedural programming language, including a plurality of code sections comprising a plurality of functions encoded in said procedural programming language with a declarative programming extension;a plurality of code sections of said computer code comprising a plurality of functions encoded in said procedural programming language with the declarative programming extension, each said function encoded in a code section; at least two functions of said plurality of functions including a rule for comparison with data objects and an operation to be performed to update a data object and specifying a rule and object for a subsequent operation when said rule is satisfied; andmeans for executing said program including said plurality of code sections, thereby providing an implementation suitable for use in a resource constrained system using syntax and development tools of existing said procedural programming language.