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We are all familiar with sets of related actions that take place concurrently. The operation of many m0ving trains on a rail network and the handling of several lines of customers at a bank are typical examples. In contrast, the traditional stored program digital computer has had as its primary objective the sequential execution of the steps forming a single algorithm. As a consequence, most programming languages address only questions of sequence and ignore parallelism.
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Marcotty, M., Ledgard, H. (1987). Parallel Processing. In: The World of Programming Languages. Springer Books on Professional Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4692-3_12
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