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Manfred von Thun
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Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Created Joy — functional programming in pure concatenative form, Forth reimagined by a philosopher.

Created Joy

Created Joy (2001) — a purely functional concatenative language — to prove Forth could be clean: functions compose by concatenation, no side effects.\n\nLa Trobe philosopher-mathematician; the most elegant esolang-adjacent design.

Sources

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