{{language
|strength=strong
|safety=safe
|checking=dynamic
|site=http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/research/research-projects/past-projects/joy-programming-language
|hopl id=2137
|LCT=yes}}
{{language programming paradigm|concatenative}}
{{language programming paradigm|functional}}
'''Joy''' is a [[functional programming]] language based on combinators rather than lambda expressions. This gives it a postfix syntax, similar to [[Forth]], although the semantics are quite different.