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Functional languages offer abstraction, expressiveness, referential transparency, and a clear semantic model. They allow algorithms to be expressed at a high level of abstraction and thus support the task of program development substantially. Research in parallel functional programming also tries to provide these advantages in the context of parallel program development. Following the idea of declarative programming, the main task of a parallel programmer should be to specify what has to be evaluated in parallel and not how the parallel evaluation has to be organised. Consequently programmers should not deal with low level details of process management such as process creation and placement, communication and synchronisation.
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Loogen, R. (1999). Programming Language Constructs. In: Hammond, K., Michaelson, G. (eds) Research Directions in Parallel Functional Programming. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0841-2_3
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