Applicative Order Reduction

* 1applicative order reductionan evaluation strategy under which an expression is evaluated by repeatedly evaluating its leftmost innermost redex this means that a function's arguments are evaluated before the function is applied this method will not terminate if a function is given a non-terminating expression as an argument even if the function is not strict in that argument also known as call-by-value since the values of arguments are passed rather than their names this is the evaluation strategy used by ml, scheme, hope and most procedural languages such as c and pascalsee also: normal order reduction, parallel reduction
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