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{{Infobox programming language

| name = Orwell

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| paradigm = [[Lazy evaluation|Lazy]], [[Functional programming|functional]]

| year = 1984

| designer = [[Philip Wadler]]

| developer = Martin Raskovsky

| year = {{Start date and age|1984}}

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| latest release dateversion = 6.00

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|1990|01}}

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| operating system = [[Unix]]

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| dialects =

| influenced_by = [[Miranda (programming language)|Miranda]]

| influenced = [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]]

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| influenced_byinfluenced by = [[Miranda (programming language)|Miranda]]

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'''Orwell''' is a small, [[Lazylazy evaluation|lazy]], [[functionalFunctional (programming)|functional]] [[programming language]] implemented principally by Martin Raskovsky and first released in 1984 by [[Philip Wadler]] during his time as a Research Fellow in the [[Programming Research Group]], part of the [[Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford|Oxford University Computing Laboratory]]. Developed as a free alternative to [[Miranda (programming language)|Miranda]], it was a forerunner of [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]]. Itand was one of the first programming languages to support [[list comprehensionscomprehension]]s and [[pattern matching]].

The name is a tribute to George Orwell's novel ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', the year in which the language was released. In the late 1980s and the 1990s, most of the computing practical assignments for [[undergraduate]]s studying for a [[Academic degree|degree]] in ''Mathematics and Computation'' at [[Oxford University]] were required to be completed using the language.

The name is a tribute to George Orwell's book 1984.

==References==

*{{cite journalreport |lastlast1=Wadler |firstfirst1=P.L.Philip |coauthorsauthor1-link =''etPhilip Wadler al.''|yearlast2=Miller |first2=Quentin |date=October 1988 |title=Introduction to Orwell 5.00 |publisher=[[ProgrammingOxford Research GroupUniversity]] ofComputing Laboratory, [[OxfordProgramming UniversityResearch Group]]}}

*{{cite report |last1=Wadler |first1=Philip |author1-link =Philip Wadler |last2=Miller |first2=Quentin |date=January 1990 |title=Introduction to Orwell 6.00 |publisher=[[Oxford University]] Computing Laboratory, [[Programming Research Group]]}}

{{Haskell programming}}

{{Programming languages}}

[[Category:Academic programming languages]]

[[Category:Functional languages]]

| influenced = [[Category:Haskell (programming language)|Haskell family]]

[[Category:Programming languages created in 1984]]

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