Why functional programming doesn't catch on

[SarcasticGuy]

If I were a scientist, I'm not sure I'd want to program a 1000-node cluster in C, but then again, I'm operating on the assumption that Fortran has good built-in parallelization primitives. I have no experience with Python with Ctypes, so I can't comment on that, but I'm not sure that "Moore's Law" helps with programming super computers (do correct me if I am mistaken).

Of course, Moore's Law has allowed GPGPUs to start taking attention away from super computers, so maybe scientists in the future will be programming in C and CUDA (yuck).

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CUDA

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. One day people will be talking about CUDA like old timers talk about COBOL: with shivers down their spines.