Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Jan 28 13:41:20 CST 2013
Hi Arthur: What's that again? ...thus are trivially parallelizable... Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 11:29 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] F# There's a good conceptual introduction to functional programming at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html. perhaps the greatest example is Google's MapReduce. The general idea is this: purely functional programs have no side effects and thus are trivially parallelizable.. A. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com