Orwell (programming language) Orwell (programming language) Orwell is a small, lazy-evaluation functional programming language implemented principally by Martin Raskovsky and first released in 1984 by Philip Wadler during his time as a Research Fellow in the Programming Research Group, part of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. Developed as a free alternative to "Miranda", it was a forerunner of "Haskell" and was one of the first programming languages to support list comprehensions and pattern matching. The name is a tribute to George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", the year in which the programming language was released. In the late 1980s and the 1990s, most of
Orwell, Ohio Orwell, Ohio Orwell is a village in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,660 at the 2010 census. A post office called Orwell has been in operation since 1826. The name Orwell is derived from Orwell, Vermont, the native home of an early settler. Orwell is located at (41.531648, -80.859488). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,660 people, 642 households, and 411 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 706 housing units at an