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'''Miranda''' is a [[lazy evaluation|lazy]], [[functional programming|purely functional]] [[programming language]] designed by [[David Turner (computer scientist)|David Turner]] as a successor to his earlier programming languages [[SASL programming language|SASL]] and [[Kent Recursive Calculator|KRC]], using some concepts from [[ML (programming language)|ML]] and [[Hope (programming language)|Hope]]. It was produced by Research Software Ltd. of England (which holds a trademark on the name ''Miranda'')<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Turner|first=D. A.|date=1985|editor-last=Jouannaud|editor-first=Jean-Pierre|title=Miranda: A non-strict functional language with polymorphic types|url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-15975-4_26|journal=Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture|series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science|language=en|___location=Berlin, Heidelberg|publisher=Springer|pages=1–16|doi=10.1007/3-540-15975-4_26|isbn=978-3-540-39677-2}}</ref> and was the first purely functional language to be commercially supported.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}
Miranda was first released in 1985 as a fast interpreter in [[C (programming language)|C]] for [[Unix]]-flavour operating systems, with subsequent releases in 1987 and 1989. It had a strong influence on the later [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]] programming language.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hudak|first1=Paul|last2=Hughes|first2=John|title=A History of Haskell: being lazy with class|url=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/history-of-haskell/|date=2007}}</ref>
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