Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

FFP
     
        Formal FP.  A language similar to FP, but with regular
        sugarless {syntax}, for machine execution.
     
        See also {FL}.
     
        ["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)].
     
        (1994-10-24)