[Haskell-cafe] Re: A rant against the blurb on the Haskell front page

Good start, if only the "advanced" were replaced with something more characteristic, like "lazy", or "statically typed". Which, BTW, both do not appear in the whole blurb, even though they are *the* characteristics of Haskell, lazyness being even something that sets it apart from most other languages.

AFAIK laziness is a property of the major implementations of Haskell, but not really of the language itself. All I see in the Haskell report points at it being "applicative", "call by name", but nowhere does the report seem to mandate a lazy strategy. It's just that being purely functional implies that the compiler is free to use laziness. Stefan