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Miranda, a lazy purely functional language predating Haskell
- SkyMarshal 3y agoI wasn't aware of this language until just today, seeing Jeff Dean praise it and its creator David Turner, who recently passed away: https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1728506426795135356 https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1728506426795135356 There's probably a link from what Jeff learned from Miranda to his design of MapReduce. More links from that twitter thread: https://twitter.com/satnam6502/status/1728497100923773357 https://twitter.com/satnam6502/status/1728497100923773357 (more on Miranda and David) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(programming_language) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/24/david-turner-obituary https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/24/david-tur...