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From: imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Subject: Re: Language wars (6th September)
Date: 1996/09/09
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In article <967cc$112c6.322@NEWS>, taibi@inil.com (Solomon Taibi) wrote:
|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

This whole article is an Orwell program, because lines not starting with ">"
are comments.  Coincidentally enough, it is also a Gofer program if you
invoke the interpreter with the right flags.

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