This is certainly proof that you can abuse economics in any context! ;) Or perhaps that economics can be used to abuse anything... - Johan Tibell On 10/12/06, Henning Thielemann wrote:

Here is another approach of questionable classification of languages. :-)

A lazy functional program is demand driven, an imperative program is supply driven. That is, if I request some information by calling a function in GHCi or Hugs, the interpreter develops a plan a how to produce the information I need and then executes the necessary steps. In contrast to that, an imperative program executes what's next on the schedule, whether it is need or not. So is Haskell a Keynesian language and C++ a Say language? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

I prefer the terms "awesome" and "crappy", respectively, but sure, whatever works for you ;-) Mike Henning Thielemann wrote:

Here is another approach of questionable classification of languages. :-)

A lazy functional program is demand driven, an imperative program is supply driven. That is, if I request some information by calling a function in GHCi or Hugs, the interpreter develops a plan a how to produce the information I need and then executes the necessary steps. In contrast to that, an imperative program executes what's next on the schedule, whether it is need or not. So is Haskell a Keynesian language and C++ a Say language? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe