[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell vs OCaml

robert dockins robdockins at fastmail.fm
Wed May 4 09:09:02 EDT 2005


> That leaves one aspect of Haskell vs Ocaml I don't yet understand.
> What are the advantages of lazy evaluation?

I'd recommend this paper (once again):

http://www.md.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html

One of the main points of the paper is that lazy evaluation enables a 
new way of modularizing code.



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