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> But the thing is that if they push the "pure" ideology to its limits they will uncover a number of useful things along the way. For example new elegant appro
by vimes656 13y ago
> But the thing is that if they push the "pure" ideology to its limits they will uncover a number of useful things along the way.
For example new elegant approaches to parallelism/concurrency that would be very difficult in an impure language.
- danieldk 13y agoIndeed. For instance, something like http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parallel-3.1.0.1/docs/Control-Parallel-Strategies.html http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parallel-3.1.0.1/docs/Con... Would be very difficult to implement in a language that is not referentially transparent and lazy.