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Joy is a programming language created in 2001 by Manfred von Thun.

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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 a sort of parallel evolution and convergence. Read more on Wikipedia...


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DEFINE qsort == [small] [] [uncons [>] split] [enconcat] binrec.

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title authors year publisher
The Joy of PHP: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Interactive Web Applications with PHP and mySQL Forbes, Alan 2012 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way Michael Fogus and Chris Houser 2011 Manning Publications
Real Time Programming: Neglected Topics (Addison-Wesley Series in Joy of Computing) Foster, Caxton C. 1981 Pearson P T R
The Joy of JavaScript Atencio, Luis 2020 Manning Publications
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