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Orwell	B-Language
is	O
a	O
small	O
,	O
lazy-evaluation	O
functional	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
implemented	O
principally	O
by	O
Martin	O
Raskovsky	O
and	O
first	O
released	O
in	O
1984	O
by	O
Philip	O
Wadler	O
during	O
his	O
time	O
as	O
a	O
Research	O
Fellow	O
in	O
the	O
Programming	O
Research	O
Group	O
,	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Oxford	O
University	O
Computing	O
Laboratory	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Developed	O
as	O
a	O
free	O
alternative	O
to	O
Miranda	B-Language
,	O
it	O
was	O
a	O
forerunner	O
of	O
Haskell	B-Language
and	O
was	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
first	O
programming	O
languages	O
to	O
support	O
list	B-Language
comprehensions	I-Language
and	O
pattern	B-Language
matching	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
name	O
is	O
a	O
tribute	O
to	O
George	O
Orwell	B-Language
's	O
novel	O
Nineteen	O
Eighty-Four	O
,	O
the	O
year	O
in	O
which	O
the	O
programming	O
language	O
was	O
released	O
.	O
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