[Haskell-cafe] education or experience?

[Rustom Mody]

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wallace at me.com>wrote:

>
> 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
>

You are reading an associativity/parse to Doug's post that he probably did
not intend.
"FP came late" was meant to apply to the data orientation (I think) thanks
to the long domination of Lisp
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