[plt-scheme] call-by-value vs. call-by-name?

On 1/28/08, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
>
> On the fringes of the professional community (blogs posting and
> articles), there has been a lot of hype about Haskell for the past
> year or two. So much so that 'functional programming' and 'lazy'
> seemingly go together like 'peanut butter and jelly'.
>

I don't think this is anything new -- people seemed to have considered
laziness "crucial" to FP for a while. John Hughes in his 1984 memo
lists it as one of the reasons why FP matters at all.

Cheers,
-- 
                shu