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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.

Read this: http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/regular-shape-pol...



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