> Re: Joy and Concatenative Programming

2001-09-27 Thread Manfred von Thun
> From: Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:57:16 +0200 [..] > SAJ told that Joy is functional. If I unterstood him correctly, he said > functional languages eliminated state and Joy IN ADDITION TO THIS eliminated > variables and environments. So there must be a im

Re: Joy and Concatenative Programming

2001-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
> [...] > SAJ> Joy differs from Haskell in that it has no variables. Instead, all > SAJ> functions are postfix, taking a stack as their argument and returning > SAJ> a stack as a result. > No, this is just a good old Forth programming language. It's a pity > that author of Joy even didn't mention

Re: Joy and Concatenative Programming

2001-09-24 Thread hw
Hello S., Tuesday, September 25, 2001, 9:08:48 AM, you wrote: SAJ> I just found out about a functional programming language called Joy (see SAJ> http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html). SAJ> Joy differs from Haskell in that it has no variables. Instead, all SAJ> functions are pos