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Joy Dead

Joy
KindProgramming language
Appeared2001
StatusDead
CreatorManfred von Thun
FamilyForth
Sourceesolangs.org ↗

Forth purified — pure function composition on a stack with no variables at all; combinators instead of definitions.

Created by Manfred von Thun
Influenced Factor

Manfred von Thun's Joy (2001) — a purely functional concatenative language — is Forth without side effects: programs are functions on stacks composed by concatenation.\n\nIt is the theoretical answer to 'what if Forth were pure?' — and the most elegant concatenative design.

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Sources

  1. esolangs.org/wiki/Joy
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)