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Article #840RE: Applications for lazy functional languages
From: cs450a03
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1991 10:58
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1991 10:58
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Joe Keane writes: >First of all, laziness is not an `extra'. It exists in every language, it >just may not be apparent from the terminology. ... An interesting point, and a good one. [but later] >With the proper techniques, a lazy language can be faster than a traditional >one. Er.. by lazy do you mean a totally lazy language that never evaluates anything? Those are pretty fast, but um.... not incredibly useful. >I don't feel like explaining this in depth, since you could easily >write a book on it. Now THAT's what I call lazy! ;-) >Also, it's better to just do something, instead of describing how >you think it could be done. But that's not very lazy ?! >So for now, i'll just leave this as an unsubstantiated claim. Get some sleep, Joe. -- Raul Rockwell
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