Why would a language NOT use Short-circuit evaluation?

Question

Why would a language NOT use Short-circuit evaluation? Are there any benefits of not using it?

I see that it could lead to some performances issues... is that true?

Answer 1

As a stretch:

If you wanted a language to be super secure (at the cost of awesomeness), you would remove short circuit eval. When something 'secure' takes a variable amount of time to happen, a Timing Attack could be used to mess with it. Short circuit eval results in things taking different times to execute, hence poking the hole for the attack. In this case, not even allowing short circuit eval would hopefully help write more secure algorithms (wrt timing attacks anyway).