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the hopes of functional programming is that...it will be easier to exploit a lot of concurrency

Is this not exactly what is happening today?

Because computing is now supposed to cure all the ills of the world and more... The current boom in computing is an immediate reflection of absolutely unrealistic hopes.

Are we not repeating history exactly? E.g. medicine-quackery, chemistry-alchemy, astronomy-astrology

Regarding AI: Can you research something that is not science? I feel that the effort to use machines to try to mimic human reasoning is both foolish and dangerous.

Amen