On Aug 27, 2013, at 8:48 PM, Galler wrote:

> Racket uses applicative order


For the record, there is no such thing as 'applicative order.' There is 
call-by-value and there is a humongous misunderstanding called 'applicative 
order' in the 1960s and 1970s that was fixed by Plotkin's 1973 paper on 
"call-by-name, call-by-value, and the lc" in TCS. There are stone-aged authors 
who can't resist using this terminology but we should be enlightened enough to 
know that this is a bogus term w/o well-defined meaning :-) 

-- Matthias (heart-felt as you can tell) 


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