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mafribe on May 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf]

     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.

tel on May 7, 2015 [–]

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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