Joy

The Joy programming language in computer science is a purely functional programming language that was produced by Manfred von Thun of La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Joy is based on composition of functions rather than lambda calculus. It was inspired by the function-level programming style of John Backus's FP. It has turned out to have many similarities to Forth, due not to design but to an independent evolution and convergence. Wikipedia

Created Year: 2001

Wikidata: Q1265107

Influenced: Cat • Factor

Influenced by: Forth • FP • Scheme

Programming paradigms: concatenative programming • purely functional programming • stack-oriented programming

Language types: purely functional programming language