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What is it about functional programming that makes it inherently adapted to parallel execution? [duplicate]

I've been reading over and over that functional languages are ideal (or at least very often useful) for parallelism. Why is this? What core concepts and paradigms are typically employed and which ...
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How Functional Programming addresses concurrent increment/decrement operations invoked by different users?

Using Functional language, How can 2 different parties achieve the result of increment/decrement operations concurrently? For the below scenario, Let's say, I've 2 quantities in stock and 2 users in ...
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