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In the [[programming paradigm|classification of programming languages]], an '''applicativeapplication programming 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 [[programming language|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.

[[Lisp programming language|Lisp]] and [[ML programming language|ML]] are applicative programming languages. In [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]], this programming paradigm is developed into the applicative [[functor]], which extends the [[higher-order function]]al abstraction beyond [[Monad (functional programming)|monad]].