The V programming language is a purely functional programming language based on composition of functions rather than lambda calculus . It was inspired by Joy but is closer in spirit to PostScript.
The language is concatenative, meaning that it is based on composition of functions and does not have a need for formal parameters. It is also stack based with postfix notation. Every thing is a function (also called a word) in this language. Each word ...
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