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There are many forms of computing hardware systems, ever more so these days with TPU (Tensor Processing Units), GPUs, Multi-Core CPUs, Parallela Epiphany cores, FPGAs, Risc-V ISA, Analog Computing, Quantum Bits, Memristors, AI, ML, Deep Neural Nets, ...

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The linked paper above is one older perspective. It was written just as the age of networking was beginning and published two years before the advent of Smalltalk-80 that brought in a new paradigm of Object Oriented Programming were objects communicate via passing of messages.
Functional Programming makes rather massive claims that it is somehow fundamentally different than the procedural programming that came before it. Both are based upon functions calling other functions with the passing of arguments as in Lambda Calculus mathematics. 🤔 Not new.
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