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Orwell (programming language)

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Orwell is a small lazy functional programming language developed in the early 1980s 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.

External references

"Introduction to Orwell 5.00", P.L. Wadler et al., Technical Report. Programming Research Group, Oxford University, 1988.


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