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For example, in higher-order programming, one can pass [[function (programming)|functions]] as arguments to other functions and functions can be the [[return value]] of other functions (such as in [[macro (computer science)|macros]] or for [[interpreter (computing)|interpreting]]). This style of programming is mostly used in [[functional programming]], but it can also be very useful in [[object-oriented programming]]. A slightly different interpretation of higher-order programming in the context of object-oriented programming are [[higher order message]]s, which let messages have other messages as arguments, rather than functions.

Examples of languages supporting this are [[Ada (programming_language)|Ada]], [[Wolfram Language]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[ECMAScript]] ([[ActionScript]], [[JavaScript]], [[JScript]]), [[F Sharp (programming language)|F#]], [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]], [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] ([[Common Lisp]], [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]], [[Clojure]], others), [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]], [[Oz (programming language)|Oz]], [[Perl]], [[PHP]], [[Prolog]],<ref name=Naish1996>{{Cite report | title = Higher-order logic programming in Prolog | year = 1996 | author = Naish, Lee | publisher = Department of Computer Science, University of Melbourne |citeseerx = 10.1.1.35.4505}}</ref> [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], [[Smalltalk]], [[Scala (programming language)|Scala]], [[ML (programming language)|ML]], and [[Erlang (programming language)|Erlang]].

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