History
The concept of a graph reduction that allows evaluated values to be shared was first developed by Chris Wadsworth in his 1971 Ph.D. dissertation. This dissertation was cited by Peter Henderson and James H. Morris Jr. in 1976 page, “A lazy evaluator” that introduced the notion of lazy evaluation. In 1976 David Turner incorporated lazy evaluation into SASL using combinators. SASL was an early functional programming language first developed by Turner in 1972.
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