[zzzcpan]

I think Norvig and the author are wrong about "parallelism" requirement. I mean it's good to know what's out there, but you can't really understand it if you try to learn it from a multithreading point of view. Fundamentals for it are part of distributed systems and this is where people should get into and learn things about ordering, consensus, asynchronous and synchronous systems, etc.

[ww520]

Yes, their language parallelism recommendation is bit off. Parallelism is more about organizing data and algorithm than what a language can offer.

[eru]

There's of course also the distinction between parallel and concurrent.

[zzzcpan]

Yeah, they are mixing all kinds of things together, Go with Erlang and even throwing a GPU in there. These are all very different worlds and none of them teach you fundamentals. I remember how useless the parallel programming class was, I only started to understand the underlying ideas behind semaphores, mutexes and memory barriers long after I got into distributed systems.