Well, they clearly don't have the right connotations for you, but those words have a lot of academic CS credibility and mystique. You must have heard "lazy" be

Well, they clearly don't have the right connotations for you, but those words have a lot of academic CS credibility and mystique. You must have heard "lazy" before, but eager is a term of art as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eager_evaluation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eager_evaluation