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Theoretical results
The theoretical results mentioned on this page assure some very satisfactory properties of functional programming
 

 

The first Church-Rosser theorem. Rewriting with beta and eta conversions are confluent.
The second Church-Rosser theorem. If e0 => ... => e1, and if e1 is on normal form, then there exists a normal order reduction of e0 to e1