Walter Bright Wrote: > Russel Winder wrote: > > At the heart of all this is that programmers are taught that algorithm > > is a sequence of actions to achieve a goal. Programmers are trained to > > think sequentially and this affects their coding. This means that > > parallelism has to be expressed at a sufficiently high level that > > programmers can still reason about algorithms as sequential things. > > I think it's more than being trained to think sequentially. I think it is in > the > inherent nature of how we think.
Distributed programming is essentially a bunch of little sequential program that interact, which is basically how people cooperate in the real world. I think that is by far the most intuitive of any concurrent programming model, though it's still a significant conceptual shift from the traditional monolithic imperative program.
