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by codr7 2180 days ago
Agree, and I've written substantial amounts of code in all of them; though I strongly prefer Common Lisp to Clojure unless already chained to the JVM.

Besides Prolog & APL, I would add Forth to the list.
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MaxBarraclough 2180 days ago
What do you make of Joy, Forth's functional cousin?
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codr7 2180 days ago
Never did find the motivation to dive into Joy. I did write a lot of Haskell though, and it left a slightly sour taste.

I feel the same about statically typed functional programming as about Rust, it's a nice theory but in practice you end up squeezing problems into weird shapes to keep the language happy.

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dbcurtis 2180 days ago
Is Joy getting any active development? The only resources I could find with a quick search seem to be almost 20 years old.
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MaxBarraclough 2180 days ago
I think not, unfortunately. The official git repo hasn't been touched in 2 years. [0] More recently though, a brave functional programming adventurer has been working on a Joy compiler written in Haskell, for what that's worth. [1]

I skimmed the 'overview' page [2] and it looks unusual enough that I might give it a more serious go at some point.

I'm not especially au fait with functional programming, and have only a basic familiarity with Forth, so it's rather alien. Which is of course the appeal.

[0] https://github.com/joy-language/joy-lang.org

[1] https://github.com/owainlewis/joy

[2] http://joy-lang.org/overview-of-joy/

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