[Haskell-cafe] education or experience?

[Malcolm Wallace]

On 9 Dec 2012, at 16:31, Doug McIlroy wrote:

> In fact the FP community came late to some of these, just as 
> programming languages at large came late to garbage collection.
> 
> Lazy evaluation--at the heart of spreadsheets since the beginning.

Lazy evaluation for the lambda calculus - 1971 (Wadsworth)
Lazy evaluation in a programming language - 1976 (Henderson&Morris, Friedman&Wise)

I wouldn't call those dates late, especially since VisiCalc, the first widely-used electronic spreadsheet entered the market in 1978.

Regards,
    Malcolm