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Re:Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf] by mafribe on Thursday May 07, 2015 @12:38PM (#9506342) 

     I don't think (iv) is open at all ... Function application is just one really well understood semantic foundation.
I disagree, see my reply to "discreteevent" above. Parallel computing cannot be reduced to functions.
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Re:Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf] by tel on Thursday May 07, 2015 @01:18PM (#9506672)
No, sorry, to be clear. I don't believe that "reduction to functions" is anything but a clever or perhaps illuminating toy and that (iv) is closed in the opposite way: it's certainly not true that "reduction to functions" is right.
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