[tyingq]

Also interesting to learn two languages, in parallel, where neither is particularly good at parallelism :)

[rpier001]

Are you trolling right now? R's idioms for parallelism are pretty darn straightforward and easy to use. Effective too.

[hjk05]

What makes you think R or Python are bad at parallelism? My experience is that both are very decent.

[tyingq]

Both have packages that can manage subprocesses. Both have inherently single threaded interpreters.

[rpier001]

What technology in what language are you comparing them against?

[nurettin]

Humans are very good at doing things successively and calling it parallel.