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 book 1984.
"Introduction to Orwell 5.00", P.L. Wadler et al., Technical Report. Programming Research Group, Oxford University, 1988.
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