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What if you do not-functional software in ways where parallelism and concurrency are non-problems? there is no elephant in the room?

• TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
  Pure functional programming provides benefits in domains where you don't need parallelism or concurrency, too. It controls side effects, allowing safe composition of functions.
  • seanmcdirmid 11y ago
    Right. Just like it is often useful to avoid functional code in cases where parallelism is needed for performance reasons (e.g. in CUDA).
    • sebastianconcpt 11y ago
      What's the paradigm that fits best for CUDA?
      • seanmcdirmid 11y ago
        SIMT of course, it is more similar to array programming than functional (of course, array and relational programming all have relationships with FP).