Exploring Programming Languages — Miranda

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Let’s continue our exploration of programming languages with an old but really cool one: Miranda.

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Miranda is an old language, as it’s already 41 years old. It was first published in 1985. But somehow it became almost forgotten.

I heard about Miranda around 2015, as I had already learned other functional languages such as Haskell and Erlang.

Fun fact: Miranda inspired Haskell 🤓

Another fun fact: Miranda has no variables or loops 🤯

Last fun fact: Miranda shares the same extension as the Mercury Programming Language 🤝

Ok, let’s jump into our main topic, which is creating an LED Numbers application.

The application should work like this: we input 1977, and it returns:

LED Numbers output

Now, keep in mind that we want to show this to newcomers to Miranda, not to seasoned developers.

The first thing we’re going to do is create a function that will return the required value. Wait, what? No Map, Dictionary, or Hash? Nope, there’s…