On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Malcolm Wallace
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