fp

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fp - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  FP
  
     1. functional programming.
  
     2. floating-point.
  
     3. Functional Programming.  A combinator-based functional language
      by John Backus stressing the use of higher-order functions
     .
  
     Implementation by Andy Valencia.
     (ftp://apple.com/comp.sources.Unix/volume13).
  
     See also FFP, FL, IFP, Berkeley FP.
  
     ["Can Programming be Liberated From the von Neumann Style?  A
     Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs", John Backus,
     1977 Turing Award Lecture, CACM 21(8):165-180 (Aug 1978)].
  
     4. <programming> Function Point.
  
     (1995-03-12)