Re: [Haskell-cafe] Elevator pitch for functional programming

Jim Burton wrote:

Parallelism! Something based on dons' blog http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/11/29#smoking-4core will be a good start.

+3 Ever tried to do anything like this in Java? Even Smalltalk makes it relatively hard compared to Haskell's parallelism primitives. (I do *mean* parallelism, not concurrency - although Haskell does that pretty damned impressively too...)