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JOY(ID:2137/joy001)

Designed 2001

is a purely functional language. Whereas all other functional languages are based on the application of functions to arguments, JOY is based on the composition of functions. All such functions take stack as arguments and produce a stack as value. Consequently, much of JOY looks like ordinary postfix notation.

Structures:

Function

References:

Manfred von Thun. (2001) Manfred von Thun. Joy: Forth's functional cousin. In Euro-Forth, 2001 latrobe Abstract
Resources

Synopsis of the language Joy
Rationale for Joy, a functional language
An informal tutorial on Joy

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