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Functional reactive programming
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<p>Functional reactive programming (FRP) is a <a href="/facts/Programming_paradigm/7LwgRpB3">programming paradigm</a> for <a href="/facts/Reactive_programming/Jj8CsdKY">reactive programming</a> (<a href="/facts/Asynchronous_programming/1cwyNFMu">asynchronous</a> <a href="/facts/Dataflow_programming/60IdWpE1">dataflow programming</a>) using the building blocks of <a href="/facts/Functional_programming/cdxqPEIM">functional programming</a> (e.g., <a href="/facts/Map_(higher-order_function)/GdzN4UJl">map</a>, <a href="/facts/Fold_(higher-order_function)/gllDcCxw">reduce</a>, <a href="/facts/Filter_(higher-order_function)/2hL8zWKj">filter</a>). FRP has been used for programming <a href="/facts/Graphical_user_interface/wBlQFWDP">graphical user interfaces</a> (GUIs), <a href="/facts/Robotics/wkmvodJz">robotics</a>, games, and music, aiming to simplify these problems by explicitly modeling time. </p>