>I see no reason why strictness would have pathological performance problems. If you don't need to compute a value, dinner compute it. No performance problems.
You just answered your own question. "If you don't need to compute a value, then don't compute it" is laziness.
>That seems absurd given that the overwhelming majority of programmers have gotten along without it for 50 years.
No they haven't. Most programmers don't understand it, but they tend to use it on a regular basis.
You just answered your own question. "If you don't need to compute a value, then don't compute it" is laziness.
>That seems absurd given that the overwhelming majority of programmers have gotten along without it for 50 years.
No they haven't. Most programmers don't understand it, but they tend to use it on a regular basis.