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'''''Applicative''''' refers to a [[language paradigm]] for classifying [[computer programming language]]s. An '''applicative language''' is designed to support the development of programs as giving the result of a function of the combined variables. Successive functional transformations are applied to data to arrive at the result. Such a language, with program control and total state kept in the background, may also be known as a [[functional language]], in a rather loose sense of the term.

[[LISPLisp programming language|Lisp]] and [[ML programming language|ML]] are applicative programming languages.

[[Category:Programming languages]]