Abstract: Techniques for using a declarative programming language to automatically generate imperative language computer programs (such as the get, set, enable, and disable commands of the Windows® PowerShell scripting language) that perform administrative tasks of computing environments. A code generator 150 is operative to process a declarative language document, which includes at least three hierarchically-related data structures. The first data structure references certain administrative commands; the second data structure references parameters accepted by the commands; and the third data structure provides pointers to configuration data associated with the parameters. The document is processed in accordance with a set of rules to produce imperative-language execution routines that call sub-routines and pass variables thereto, which enables differences between parameters and configuration data to be mitigated through mapping.