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 | This article possibly contains original research. (May 2009) |
| Paradigm | multi-paradigm: functional, concatenative, stack-oriented |
|---|---|
| Designed by | Manfred von Thun |
| Developer | Manfred von Thun John Cowan |
| First appeared | 2001 |
| Stable release | March 17, 2003
/ March 17, 2003 |
| Typing discipline | strong, dynamic |
| Major implementations | |
| Joy0, Joy1, "Current Joy", "John Cowan's Joy", "JoyJ (Joy in jvmm)" | |
| Influenced by | |
| Scheme, FP, Forth | |
| Influenced | |
| Factor, Cat, V, Trith | |
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 has turned out to have many similarities to Forth, due not to design but to an independent evolution and convergence. It was also inspired by the function-level programming style of John Backus's FP.[1]
- ^ Manfred von Thun (December 12, 2003). "A Conversation with Manfred von Thun". Retrieved May 31, 2013.
In the early 1980s I came across the famous Backus paper "Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style," and I was immediately intrigued by the higher level of programming in his FP.