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Haskell is probably a good option.

• apgwoz 18y ago
  I like the idea of playing with a lazy language, but am a bit intimidated by Haskell. Oh, sure I've written some trivial programs in it, but there's this aura surrounding it that makes me put Simon Peyton Jones, Philip Wadler and the rest of the crew on this pedestal. I kneel before them.
  • felixmar 18y ago
    Perhaps a strict Haskell 98 implementation? I really like Haskell but i'm still not convinced that laziness should be the default. It would be interesting to see what the trade-offs are.
    • apgwoz 18y ago
      Interesting. I've been thinking about laziness a bit lately and am wondering why not to make it the default. Of course my thoughts haven't produced much and I haven't went in search of arguments yet. But, the only argument against it that I can see is efficiency assuming your in a pure functional language. Obviously, laziness when the surrounding environment is changing can lead to unpredictability, but compiling memoized thunks to implement laziness seems like it could be optimized very well. Edit: In regards to your actual suggestion, I'll take a look at the spec and the idea. Thanks