Applicative programming language: Difference between revisions

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Refers to a language paradigm to classify computer programming languages. A language designed to emphasize the view of developing programs by concentrating on the result of a function of the combined variables (state) to drive the program control. Successive functional transformations are applied to data to arrive at the result. functionN(... function2(function1(function(data))...)

LISP and ML are functionalprogramming languages supporting this model.

Derived and quoted from "Programming Languages Design And Implementation" by Terrence W. Pratt