I really appreciate this thorough book review. I've had CTM for a while but never understood whether it was sufficiently valuable to read. I'm still uncertain, but I understand at a much greater depth what I might learn.
I am not so sure the example provided helps me understand its real use. To me his example resembles something the compiler would handle by filtering out code that is never used. I suppose that the example could be more complete with a conditional use of F3 later on, implying if the condition is not met then C={F3 30} would be skipped.
Appreciate the article, confused me at least which means I will probably look into such ideas more even if in my field I will never use them
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 46.6 ms ] threadMight be worth changing the HN title to be more descriptive. My suggestion: "What Lazy Evaluation Really Means"
Yes I know it undoes the cutsie title, but he's just going to deliver a bunch of bandwidth, get no ad clicks, and waste a bunch of people's time.
Precisely how I would evaluate this comment!
Appreciate the article, confused me at least which means I will probably look into such ideas more even if in my field I will never use them