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Haskell is among the very few non-strict languages - the entire ML family (aside from some research spinoffs which add laziness), all popular Lisps, Erlang, etc. are all strict. Also, the second paragraphs seems off - as you correctly state in the first paragraph, laziness does allows infinite recursion (the Haskell prelude has the immensely useful forever a = a >> forever a for instance).

user7043
– user7043

2012-05-18 13:02:56 +00:00
Commented May 18, 2012 at 13:02
@deinan: As far as I know SML/NJ also offers lazy evaluation but it is an addition to SML. I also wanted to name two of the few lazy functional languages: Miranda and Clean.

Giorgio
– Giorgio

2012-05-18 16:18:12 +00:00
Commented May 18, 2012 at 16:18

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