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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Language wars (6th September)
Date: 1996/09/10
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In article <9075.imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier) writes: 

> |OK, I'll bite.  What is "Orwell", beside my favorite English author?
>
> A functional language, closely related to Miranda and Gofer.
>
> For example: 
>
> > factorial x = x, if x<3
> >             = x*factorial(x-1), otherwise

Well, there certainly is something Orwellian about asserting that 0! = 0.

> This whole article is an Orwell program, because lines not starting with ">"
> are comments.

Until it gets quoted in another article! :-)

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Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com