Re:Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf]
by isodude on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:48AM
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I'm not saying you are wrong btw, there are multiple efforts put there to create truly parallell processors. But it's not until recently that the technique exist to make them good enough. Good times ahead I would say. I personally know someone part of such effort.
I clearly remember the feeling of just getting it as well. It was a very binary moment :)
As for FP... I remember a guy saying "imperative/OOP shows you how it does stuff, while FP shows you what is it doing". It was a very eye-opening statement for me.