InfoQ Homepage Presentations How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not! Summary Guy L. Steele Jr. believes that it should not be the programmer’s job to think about parallelism, but languages should provide ways to transparently run tasks in parallel. This requires a new approach in building languages supporting algorithms built on independence and build-and-conquer principles rather than on linear decomposition of problems. Bio Guy Steele is a Sun Fellow for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, wo...