Maëlle Salmon, Athanasia Mo Mowinckel, and Hannah Frick are quite studious:
In the programming world, laziness can often be a good thing: it is both a human quality that can motivate automation efforts, and a programming concept that avoids wasting resources such as memory. Now, when reading code or documentation, seeing the word “lazy” can be confusing, because of its polisemy: it carries several meanings. In this post, we will enumerate the different possible definitions of “lazy” in R code.
Read on for a variety of contexts around “lazy,” including lazy evaluation, lazy database queries, lazy loading, and more.