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Applicative programming language

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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))...)

LISP and ML are functional languages supporting this model.

Derived and quoted from "Programming Languages Design And Implementation" by Terrence W. Pratt http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130276782/qid=1095230470/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/104-4637653-0901523?v=glance&s=books

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