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How are declarative languages executed by a computer?

I’m getting introduced to declarative languages and am beginning to love them. In particular Haskell, a functional language, is very expressive, easy to debug. But my question has to do with execution. Are such languages compiled or interpreted? If it is the latter then I would have to choose conventional languages like C++ or Java for performance reasons. But I would love to use declarative languages for their increased productivity and ease of maintenance.
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How are declarative languages executed by a computer?

I’m getting introduced to declarative languages and am beginning to love them. In particular Haskell, a functional language, is very expressive, easy to debug. But my question has to do with execution. Are such languages compiled or interpreted? If it is the latter then I would have to choose conventional languages like C++ or Java for performance reasons. But I would love to use declarative languages for their increased productivity and ease of maintenance.
Eager to hear from the esteemed members of this community.

What makes functional programming languages declarative as opposed to Imperative?

On many articles, describing the benefits of functional programming, I have seen functional programming languages, such as Haskell, ML, Scala or Clojure, referred to as “declarative languages” distinct from imperative languages such as C/C++/C#/Java. My question is what makes functional programming languages declarative as opposed to imperative.