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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

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.  Function Point.

   (1995-03-12)