Ambitious evaluation: a new reading of an old issue

Pitman, Kent M.

View document: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/224133.224137

Abstract
Much has been written about Lazy Evaluation in Lisp—less about the other end of the spectrum—Ambitious Evaluation. Ambition is a very subjective concept, though, and if you have some preconceived idea of what you think an Ambitious Evaluator might be about, you might want to set it aside for a few minutes because this probably isn’t going to be what you expect.

Journal: ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers

Volume: VIII Issue: 2 Pages: 1-44

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