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Joy (programming language)

Joy 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 the lambda calculus . It was inspired by the function-level programming style of John Backus's FP.

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Joy 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 the lambda calculus . It was inspired by the function-level programming style of John Backus's FP.

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