List of functional programming topics
This is a list of functional programming topics.
Foundational concepts
[edit]- Programming paradigm
- Declarative programming
- Programs as mathematical objects
- Function-level programming
- Purely functional programming
- Total functional programming
- Lambda programming
- Static scoping
- Higher-order function
- Referential transparency
Lambda calculus
[edit]Combinatory logic
[edit]- Fixed point combinator
- SKI combinator calculus
- B, C, K, W system
- SECD machine
- Graph reduction machine
Intuitionistic logic
[edit]- Sequent, sequent calculus
- Natural deduction
- Intuitionistic type theory
- BHK interpretation
- Curry–Howard correspondence
- Linear logic
- Game semantics
Type theory
[edit]- Typed lambda calculus
- Typed and untyped languages
- Type signature
- Type inference
- Datatype
- Algebraic data type (generalized)
- Type variable
- First-class value
- Polymorphism
- Calculus of constructions
Denotational semantics
[edit]Category theory
[edit]Operational issues
[edit]- Graph reduction
- Strict programming language
- Lazy evaluation, eager evaluation
- Speculative evaluation
- Side effect
- Assignment
- Closure
- Continuation
- Continuation passing style
- Operational semantics
- State transition system
- Simulation preorder
- Bisimulation
- Monads in functional programming
- Exception handling
- Garbage collection