[Haskell-cafe] Python is lazier than Haskell

Casey McCann syntaxglitch at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 08:23:45 CEST 2011


On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Gregg Reynolds <dev at mobileink.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Ben Lippmeier <benl at ouroborus.net> wrote:
>> Laziness at the value level causes space leaks, and laziness at the type
>> level causes mind leaks. Neither are much fun.
>>
> If the designers could find a way to support laziness at the programmer
> level I for one would be very grateful.

I believe I saw a specification for such a language once.
Unfortunately it was also lazy at the ontological level, and since
nothing logically required the spec to exist it actually didn't.

- C.



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