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Miranda Dead

Miranda
KindProgramming language
Appeared1985
StatusDead
CreatorDavid Turner
FamilyML
Sourcemiranda.org.uk ↗

Turner's lazy pure functional language — the direct parent of Haskell; released under BSD in 2020 but no longer developed.

Descended from ML
Succeeded by Haskell
Created by David Turner
Descendants Haskell

David Turner's Miranda (1985) — SASL/KRC's successor — was the first lazy, purely functional commercial language: infinite lists, currying, pattern matching, and Haskell's direct inspiration.\n\nProprietary until 2020 (now BSD), it was the language the Haskell committee was designed to replace with an open standard.

Sources

  1. miranda.org.uk/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(programming_language)