Concatenative Programming Resources

A curated list of resources about concatenative programming and related topics.

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Table of Contents

• Programming languages
• Articles / Papers
• Functional stuff

Programming languages

• Joy [website] [Wikipedia], by Manfred von Thun
• Forth [Wikipedia], by Charles H. Moore
• Factor [website] [GitHub] [Wikipedia], by Slava Pestov
• Cat [GitHub], by Christopher Diggins
• Kitten [website] [GitHub], by Jon Purdy
• pForth [website] [GitHub] [Wikipedia], by Phil Burk
• Gforth [website] [wikipedia], by Bernd Paysan and Anton Ertl
• RawrCat [GitHub], by Wes Brown
• JKat [website]
• PostScript [Wikipedia]

Articles / Papers

Wikipedia:

• Concatenative programming language
• Category:Concatenative programming languages
• Church encoding

Other:

• concatenative.org
• Atomic Programs of Joy, by Manfred von Thun
• Easy Forth, by Nick Morgan
• Factor tutorial, by Andrea Ferretti
• Writing a Concatenative Programming Language: Introduction, by Сухарик
• Why Concatenative Programming Matters, by Jon Purdy
• The Theory of Concatenative Combinators, by Brent Kerby
• A Conversation with Manfred von Thun
• What is a Concatenative Language, by Christopher Diggins

Functional stuff

• Functional JS: Booleans, Conditionals, & Operators by Casey Morris
• Functional JS: Recursive Patterns by Casey Morris
• Church encodings, the U combinator and the Y combinator in JavaScript by Matt Might
• F
• Concatenative, Row-Polymorphic Programming in Haskell
• Peg Programming Language