To sum it up, it's a kind of chicken-and-egg. Imperative/OO is tied to the physical implementation of processors, whereas FP is tied to a mathematical construct

To sum it up, it's a kind of chicken-and-egg. Imperative/OO is tied to the physical implementation of processors, whereas FP is tied to a mathematical construct for which conventional CPUs are not optimized. Related: https://github.com/tommythorn/Reduceron https://github.com/tommythorn/Reduceron https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15005670/why-is-there-no-implicit-parallelism-in-haskell https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15005670/why-is-there-no...