Although XQuery is a functional language, this fact is not always recognized in the functional language hype.

尽管XQuery是一种功能语言，但在功能语言热潮中，人们并不总是认可这个事实。

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This code is very similar to what you might see in a functional programming language, with the additional benefit that it's automatically executed in parallel.

该代码可能与使用函数程序设计语言编写的那些很类似，不过它的额外优势在于该代码是自动并行执行的。

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The concept of expression reduction is widely used in functional languages, and is particularly appropriate for optimizing a language such as XPath.

在函数型语言中已经广泛使用的表达式减少的概念，而且此概念特别适用于优化语言，如 XPath。

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Scanning their brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the scientists found that a region involved in language processing - the temporal lobe, part of the prefrontal cortex - was activated during verbal learning in rested patients.

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