>No, no it isn't. Just like you wouldn't expect 2 3 + 8 to suddenly return 22 when you intend it to, you shouldn't expect the order in which you apply functions to not matter.*
Only the latter (that the order that pure functions are applied doesn't matter) has been touted forever as a benefit of functional programming, and what supposedly makes it "trivially parallelizable".
Only the latter (that the order that pure functions are applied doesn't matter) has been touted forever as a benefit of functional programming, and what supposedly makes it "trivially parallelizable".