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My programming languages course in college had a section on Miranda. That’s 25 years ago and I’ve forgotten almost all of it, and I am not a Haskell programmer. But those few weeks proved essential for me and has benefitted my C++ tremendously.

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I've written a new (self-hosting) compiler for Miranda, with additional features from Haskell and other functional languages:

https://github.com/taolson/Miranda2

and have updated the examples with David Turner's original "sieve" implementation.

Lovely!

any chance of expanding on doc/Language.md?

Yes, I plan to get to that; I'm currently working on documenting the compiler. I might put a pointer to existing documentation on Miranda there, as a placeholder in the meantime.

[edit to add]: There are also hundreds of small example programs of using Miranda2 to solve Advent of Code puzzles, here:

https://github.com/taolson/advent-of-code

Advent of Code Puzzle Descriptions can be found here:

https://adventofcode.com/

While they don't have the puzzle-supplied data sets included, they can be used to see how various solutions are written in Miranda2.

the pointer was very useful; ta!

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