The Cat programming language is a functional stack-oriented programming language inspired by the Joy programming language. Joy and Cat differ from most functional languages (e.g. Scheme, Haskell) and language formalisms (e.g. lambda calculus, combinatory logic) in that they are based on the composition of functions rather than function application. Cat and Joy both bear more resemblance to combinatorial logic calculi (such as the SKI calculus or ...
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