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Applicative Language: Also known as Functional Language. See Language Paradigms for a description of terms, including Imperative (or Procedural), Applicative, Rule Based, or Object Oriented.

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 computation (or the results of a function) of 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))...)