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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.

designer
Philip Wadler
influenced
Haskell (programming language)
influenced by
Miranda (programming language)

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