[Haskell-beginners] Doubts about functional programming paradigm

[Sanatan Rai]

I'd recommend writing out some code and then deciding. Functional
programming is not a panacea, just the challenges are in different places.
Proponents claim that the challenges are in the *right* place. Your mileage
might vary.

I recommend working through 'Real World Haskell' as a good place to start.

--Sanatan
On 11 Dec 2015 15:07, "Abhishek Kumar" <abhishekkmr18 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am a beginner in haskell.I have heard a lot about haskell being great
> for parallel programming and concurrency but couldn't understand why?Aren't
> iterative algorithms like MapReduce more suitable to run parallely?Also how
> immutable data structures add to speed?I'm having trouble understanding
> very philosophy of functional programming, how do we gain by writing
> everything as functions and pure code(without side effects)?
> Any links or references will be a great help.
> Thanks
> Abhishek Kumar
>
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