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From: rpandey@umbra.CS.ORST.EDU (Rajeev Pandey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Reference for term "Lazy Evaluation"
Keywords: lazy, citation
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Date: 25 Oct 90 22:55:03 GMT
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 I am looking for the definitive citation on the term _lazy evaluation_.

 I've found several possibilities:

   Henderson and Morris "A Lazy Evaluator," from 3rd POPL Conference (1976)
     (actually uses the term 'lazy')

   Vuillemin "Correct & Optimal Implementation of Recursion in a Simple 
              Programming Language" J. Comp. & Sys. Sci. 9 (1974)
     (uses the term 'delayed evaluation')
 
   Burge "Recursive Programming Techniques" (Addison-Wesley, 1975).
     (uses the term 'delayed evaluation')

   Friedman and Wise "CONS should not evaluate its arguments" Automata, 
      Languages and Programming, 3rd Intl. Colloq. (1976)
     (uses the term 'delayed evaluation')

 etc.

  I found references to all of these articles in various places where the
 term lazy evaluation is introduced. Is there a definitive citation? Should 
 I just pick one of these? Should I go back to Landin and streams?

 Any input would be appreciated.

 Rajeev Pandey
 rpandey@cs.orst.edu


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