Orwell (programming language)
| Paradigm | Lazy, functional | ||||
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| Designed by | Philip Wadler | ||||
| First appeared | 1984 | ||||
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Orwell is a small lazy functional programming language first released in 1984 by Philip Wadler. Developed as a free alternative to Miranda, it was a forerunner of Haskell. It was one of the first programming languages to support list comprehensions and pattern matching.
The name is a tribute to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
References
- Wadler, P.L. et al. (1988). "Introduction to Orwell 5.00". Programming Research Group of Oxford University.