Thoughts on parallel programming?

[Walter Bright]

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.