A language built around evaluating mathematical functions and treating computation as the application of functions to values rather than a sequence of state-changing statements, matching ACM Computing Classification System Language types: Functional languages. Belongs here: Haskell, Lisp, Scheme and Standard ML. Does not belong here: a language that supports functional style alongside procedural or object-oriented style as an equal option, filed under Multi-Paradigm Language.
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Information Processing Language (IPL), 1956, is sometimes cited as the first computer-based functional programming language.
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