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{{Infobox programming language
| name = Orwell
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| paradigm = [[Lazy evaluation|Lazy]], [[Functional programming|functional]]
| year = {{Start date and age|1984}}
| designer = [[Philip Wadler]]
| developer = Martin Raskovsky
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'''Orwell''' is a small, [[Lazy evaluation|lazy-evaluation]] [[functional (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 [[Oxford University Department of Computer Science|Oxford University Computing Laboratory]]. Developed as a free alternative to [[Miranda (programming language)|Miranda]], it was a forerunner of [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]] and 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]]'', the year in which the programming 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.

==References==
*{{cite journal|last=Wadler|first=P.L.|year=1988|title=Introduction to Orwell 5.00|publisher=Programming Research Group of [[Oxford University]]|display-authors=etal}}

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[[Category:Programming languages created in 1984]]

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