[imtringued]

You sure know how to ruin a good thing with bad demeanor. When someone likes something and you say they shouldn't like it because it does exactly the same thing in a different way, you are actively driving people away from the better thing.

[maxwell86]

It's ok to like OpenMP.

What I disagree with is that it should be suggested to beginners as the way to parallelize their C++ programs.

That's like telling a Javascript programmer that they should parallelize their programs by using Python or C.

Show them how to do it in Javascript, or in this case, in C++, so that they don't have to learn a whole new programming model or language to just write parallel code.

Particularly when C++ has supported this for so long now.

[dragontamer]

OpenMP is a set of #pragma that just sit in your C++ code directly.

> What I disagree with is that it should be suggested to beginners as the way to parallelize their C++ programs.

I guess we can agree to disagree then. If beginners think your way is easier, they're welcome to try. But there's plenty of production code examples that show the simplicity of OpenMP.