Re:Why did Microsoft invest so much in F#?
by jdh30 on Saturday November 13, 2010 @07:25AM
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> Since pure functional languages are easier to parallelize.
Purely functional programs have a lot of problems with parallelism. If you want to parallelize your F# code effectively, you write Cilk-style code with heavy use of mutation and not Haskell-style code with purely functional data structures.
Purely functional programs have a lot of problems with parallelism. If you want to parallelize your F# code effectively, you write Cilk-style code with heavy use of mutation and not Haskell-style code with purely functional data structures.
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