Declarative Versus Imperative
An important aspect to point out about parallel programming is the way you express your intent in code. Historically, parallel programming has been mostly in the ballpark of an imperative approach. Most popular languages have imperative roots, including the C# language, which derives from C and C++. In those languages, you basically have to hold the hand of the machine and state explicitly what you want it to do.
Imperative languages are all about how you want things to be carried out. Essentially, you’re sitting pretty close to the bare metal of the machine, manipulating instruction pointers through control flow, manipulating memory through assignment, and so on. As a result, there’s little the machine, some runtime, ...
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