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This kind of thinking happens when you are a strong expert in a field, but your frontal lobes stop receiving enough blood. When this happens, something simple a

This kind of thinking happens when you are a strong expert in a field, but your frontal lobes stop receiving enough blood. When this happens, something simple as lazy evaluation becomes the key to the universe.

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...it's useful to (over)generalize sometimes to get more explanatory power for things. I mean, it probably says nothing useful about programming, but the other way around, thinking of "uncolapsed" wave-functions as lazy-evaluation could be useful. I'm not up-to-date on theoretical physics, but I think there might be something like that in Deutsch's constructor theory. In programming I'd prefer more a language that makes syntactically/visually obvious what's lazy and what not and allows you to pick (eg. like Rust does with &mut), with some sigil maybe, but that's probably a low-prio for many language designers nowadays... EDIT+: and you could say you practically get this already in mainstream languages... lazy-vals are just functions and it's probably good enough or better for most programmers to have them distinct/explicit.