[Haskell-cafe] Re: Learning about Programming Languages (specifically Haskell)

[Luke Palmer]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Kyle Murphy <orclev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Reasons to learn Haskell include:
> Lazy evaluation can make some kinds of algorithms possible to implement that
> aren't possible to implement in other languages (without modification to the
> algorithm).

One could say the reverse as well.

I would say that laziness allows many more *compositions* of
algorithms.  Many more objects can be described from simple building
blocks (combinators).