On Wednesday 23 May 2007 10:46 am, tim Rowledge wrote:
> The really hard part is getting people to actually think about multi-
> processing solutions to problems....
On the contrary, it is much simpler to write and reason about programs if 
multiprocessing capability is given.   Dijkstra's do-od structure was 
inherently multi. But building machines to 'execute' such programs was hard, 
so system designers invented languages that forced programmers to code for 
efficiency rather than simplicity. This trend was beautifully captured by 
Gerald Weinberg in his story of Levine the Genius Tailor:

  http://www.zafar.se/bkz/Articles/GeniusLanguageDesigner

Regards .. Subbu