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Atomic Programs of Joy

Abstract: Joy is a functional programming language based on the composition of functions taking one stack as argument and yielding one stack as value. Stacks can contain values of simple types such as truth values, characters and integers, and values of aggregate types such as sets, character strings and quoted programs with lists as a special case. The stack functions include the usual operations such as addition, comparison and list manipulation, but also many new kinds of functions which dequote quoted programs in various ways. These new functions behave like higher order functions, such as conditionals, various forms of recursion, and for aggregates the map, fold and filter functions. This paper gives an overview of the basic programs from which others are built by composition and quotation.

http://joy-lang.org/papers-on-joy/atomic-programs-of-joy/

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