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Article #485Re: Reference for term "Lazy Evaluation"
From: Rachel Harrison Josey
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 1990 14:39
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 1990 14:39
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In article <21300@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> rpandey@umbra.CS.ORST.EDU (Rajeev Pandey) writes: > > I am looking for the definitive citation on the term _lazy evaluation_. > > Henderson and Morris "A Lazy Evaluator," from 3rd POPL Conference (1976) > (actually uses the term 'lazy') > ......... > Friedman and Wise "CONS should not evaluate its arguments" Automata, > Languages and Programming, 3rd Intl. Colloq. (1976) > (uses the term 'delayed evaluation') > > Rajeev Pandey > rpandey@cs.orst.edu I think that Henderson and Morris were the first to use the term "lazy evaluation". However, Friedman and Wise, working independently of Henderson and Morris, published work on lazy evaluation in the same year (as can be seen from the above references). Rachel Harrison Josey email: rhj@ecs.soton.ac.uk Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Southampton SO9 5NH England Tel: +44 703 593055 Fax: +44 703 593045
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!rhj From: rhj@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Rachel Harrison Josey) Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional Subject: Re: Reference for term "Lazy Evaluation" Keywords: lazy, citation Message-ID: <4831@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Date: 26 Oct 90 14:39:45 GMT References: <21300@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Organization: University of Southampton, UK Lines: 27