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		vimes656 on Nov 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's wrong with Object-Oriented Programming and ... > But the thing is that if they push the "pure" ideology to its limits they will uncover a number of useful things along the way. For example new elegant approaches to parallelism/concurrency that would be very difficult in an impure language.

microtonal on Nov 12, 2013 [–]

Indeed. For instance, something like

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parallel-3.1.0.1/docs/Con...

Would be very difficult to implement in a language that is not referentially transparent and lazy.

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