Joy

Joy

See also Gaiety, Happiness.

Auteb

female personification of gladness. [Egypt. Myth.: Jobes, 159]

blue bird, the

symbolizes happiness sought by two poor children. [Belg. Lit.: The Blue Bird; Haydn & Fuller, 94]

cinquefoil

indicates gladness. [Flower Symbolism and Heraldry: Jobes, 341]

Euphrosyne

one of Graces; name means ‘festivity.’ [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 96]

gold on red

symbol of felicity and joy. [Chinese Art: Jobes, 357]

Hathor

cow-headed goddess of joy and love. [Egypt. Myth.: Leach, 484]

Hyperboreans

blissful race lived beyond the North Wind in a region of perpetual Spring. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 476]

myrrh

symbol of gladness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 176]

red on green

symbol of felicity and joy. [Chinese Art: Jobes, 357]

Rubaiyat, The

series of poems celebrating hedonism as a way of life. [Br. Poetry: Benét, 881]

wood sorrel

indicates gladness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177]

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(language)

Joy - A functional programming language by Manfred von Thun. Joy is unusual because it is not based on lambda calculus, but on the composition of functions. Functions take a stack as argument, consume any number of parameters from it, and return it with any number of results on it. The concatenation of programs denotes the composition of functions. One of the datatypes of Joy is that of quoted programs, of which lists are a special case. Joy Home.