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| Paradigm | Lazy,functional |
| Designed by | Philip Wadler |
| Developer | Martin Raskovsky |
| First appeared | 1984; 42 years ago (1984) |
| Stable release | 6.00 / January 1990; 36 years ago (1990-01) |
| OS | Unix |
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| Miranda | |
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Orwell is a small,lazy evaluation,functionalprogramming language implemented principally by Martin Raskovsky and first released in 1984 byPhilip Wadler during his time as a Research Fellow in theProgramming Research Group, part of theOxford University Computing Laboratory. Developed as a free alternative toMiranda, it was a forerunner ofHaskell and was one of the first programming languages to supportlist comprehensions andpattern matching.
The name is a tribute to George Orwell's novelNineteen Eighty-Four, the year in which the language was released. In the late 1980s and the 1990s, most of the computing practical assignments forundergraduates studying for adegree inMathematics and Computation atOxford University were required to be completed using the language.
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