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No. As someone who has spent five years programming computing clusters, I have seen many problems that are fundamentally hard to parallelize. If it falls within mapreduce you are basically "done" no matter what language you use (no need to argue fp vs imperative) but very many interesting problems to solve doesn't.

I am a big believer in FP too, but for other reasons.




I can't edit my previous statement, but after spending more than a couple minutes thinking about it, I can see I was wrong. It's quite convenient to have downvotes to clue you in when you get things wrong, even if it is embarrassing ;-)




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