The Lazy Guild Frigate

Lisp Dialect

Clojure (available in Common Lisp with the Series library, CLAZY library, or custom macros)

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Synopsis

A lazy programming language will perform a calculation only if the compiler determines it is absolutely necessary to produce a visible result. Clojure is the most popular Lisp dialect to include lazy programming as a primary feature. However, limited forms of lazy programming are common in all Lisp dialects.

How It Kills Bugs

Lazy languages let you create infinitely big data structures (as long as you don’t try to use all of the data), which allows more of your code to be formulated as transformations of large data ...

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