LISP was the first functional programming language, followed by Erlang, Scheme, Haskell, OCaml, Scala, Clojure, F# and others. Advertisement THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

Functional programming languages are declarative, meaning that a computation’s logic is expressed without describing its control flow. In declarative programming, there are no statements.

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