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Joy programming language

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Manfred von Thun of Latrobe University[?] in Melbourne, Australia has produced and is refining a functional programming language called Joy based on composition of functions rather than lambda calculus. It has turned out to have many similarities to Forth, due less to design than to a sort of parallel evolution and convergence.

For more comprehensive information, see http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy and http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JoyOfJoy

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