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Functional Programming Languages: A functional program consists of possibly some function and variable definitions, and an expression to be evaluated. Program execution consists of evaluating the expression by repeatedly replacing either primitive expressions by their value, or function invocations by their definition.
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Topics	Common Lisp Haskell http://www.haskell.org/aboutHaskell.html http://www.haskell.org/definition/ Scheme http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/scheme/ Revised(5) Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme Standard ML http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/what/smlnj/
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