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Miranda

Functional Language

Miranda is a lazy, purely functional programming language designed by David Turner as a successor to his earlier languages SASL and KRC, and was first released commercially in 1985 by Research Software Ltd. Miranda was the first purely functional language to be commercially supported, and its combination of lazy evaluation, algebraic data types and list comprehensions strongly influenced the later design of Haskell.

Facts
First Released
1985 1
Paradigm
Lazy, purely functional 1
Significance
Strongly influenced the later Haskell language 1
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Influenced

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1. Miranda (Wikipedia)
  • Overview
    Miranda was first released in 1985 as a fast interpreter in C for Unix-flavour operating systems
  • Lead paragraph
    lazy, purely functional programming language
  • Overview, influence
    It had a strong influence on the later Haskell language.
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