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FP and the arguments have evolved in the 25 years after this paper. Laziness by default was important because it forced language and library developers to inven
by tuukkah 12y ago
FP and the arguments have evolved in the 25 years after this paper. Laziness by default was important because it forced language and library developers to invent new purely functional constructs such as monads and functional reactive programming. Functional programming has won with lambdas in every language and even mainstream GUIs getting programmed with React.js, pure Flux architecture and Immutable-js.
- tormeh 12y agoGiven that "anonymous function" is the same as "lambda", please use "anonymous function", because it's self-explaining.