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by scottb on 09 October 2007, tagged as programming, mathematics, functional languages, turing award, and john backus
Different Hardware? by gnifyus :: NR7 :: Show
Scott- it was difficult (for me) to tell from the reading provided whether functional programming would require a different hardware configuration. Whether it does or not, why do you think it is that thirty years later we are still using the "von Neumann" style in both hardware and software when people such as the author of the linked article and, (I believe) yourself feel that the functional programming model is far superior?