Laziness without all the hard work: Combining lazy and strict languages for teaching

FDPE'05 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2005 Workshop on Functional and Declarative Programming in Education

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 9-13

  Barzilay, Eli ^a   Clements, John ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lazy and Eager Evaluation; PLT Scheme; Teaching Programming Languages

Indexed keywords

LAZY AND EAGER EVALUATION; PLT SCHEME; TEACHING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDUCATION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 32044435596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1085114.1085118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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