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