Even as a Haskell programmer, I don't really agree with this particular example. This kind of parallelization is extremely easy in C++ and offers a lot of contr

Even as a Haskell programmer, I don't really agree with this particular example. This kind of parallelization is extremely easy in C++ and offers a lot of control if you need to do more complicated things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMP I think it's just that a more complicated example is needed to really show the advantage of the first-class functions and such.