[Haskell-cafe] education or experience?

Richard O'Keefe ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Mon Dec 10 01:16:02 CET 2012


On 10/12/2012, at 6:34 AM, Malcolm Wallace 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)

Pop-2 had lazily evaluated streams about 1970.  In fact that's
how it did input:  a 'character producer' was nothing other than
a lazily evaluated list of characters.  The book about it appeared
in 1971.






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