[Haskell-cafe] Re: New slogan... (A long speculation), To: haskell-cafe Cafe <haskell-cafe@haskell.org>

[Prabhakar Ragde]

ok wrote:

> If one wants a lazy dynamically typed programming language that
> lets you construct "infinite lists" by using the basic language
> mechanisms in a simple and direct way, there's always Recanati's
> Lambdix, which is a lazy Lisp.  I don't know whether that ever saw
> serious use, but it does show that the thing can be done.

There is also the "Lazy Scheme" language level in recent releases of 
DrScheme.

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/fdpe05-bc.pdf

It is syntactic sugar over promises, so its primary use would be in 
education. It would make a lovely segue between Scheme and Haskell. --PR