On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wall...@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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