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From: rhj@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Rachel Harrison Josey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: Reference for term "Lazy Evaluation"
Keywords: lazy, citation
Message-ID: <4831@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Oct 90 14:39:45 GMT
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In article <21300@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> rpandey@umbra.CS.ORST.EDU (Rajeev Pandey) writes:
>
> I am looking for the definitive citation on the term _lazy evaluation_.
>
>   Henderson and Morris "A Lazy Evaluator," from 3rd POPL Conference (1976)
>     (actually uses the term 'lazy')
>
.........

>   Friedman and Wise "CONS should not evaluate its arguments" Automata, 
>      Languages and Programming, 3rd Intl. Colloq. (1976)
>     (uses the term 'delayed evaluation')
>
> Rajeev Pandey
> rpandey@cs.orst.edu

I think that Henderson and Morris were the first to use the term 
"lazy evaluation". However, Friedman and Wise, working independently
of Henderson and Morris, published work on lazy evaluation in the same
year (as can be seen from the above references).

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