<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Malcolm Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:malcolm.wallace@me.com" target="_blank">malcolm.wallace@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 9 Dec 2012, at 16:31, Doug McIlroy wrote:<br>
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> In fact the FP community came late to some of these, just as<br>
> programming languages at large came late to garbage collection.<br>
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> Lazy evaluation--at the heart of spreadsheets since the beginning.<br>
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</div>Lazy evaluation for the lambda calculus - 1971 (Wadsworth)<br>
Lazy evaluation in a programming language - 1976 (Henderson&Morris, Friedman&Wise)<br>
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I wouldn't call those dates late, especially since VisiCalc, the first widely-used electronic spreadsheet entered the market in 1978.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Malcolm<br>
</blockquote></div><br>You are reading an associativity/parse to Doug's post that he probably did not intend.<br>"FP came late" was meant to apply to the data orientation (I think) thanks to the long domination of Lisp<br>