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More Interest In Parallel Programming Outside the US?

Posted by kdawson on from the maybe-it's-the-language dept.

simoniker writes "In a new weblog post on Dobbs Code Talk, Intel's James Reinders discusses the growth of concurrency in programming, suggesting that '...programming for multi-core is catching the imagination of programmers more in Japan, China, Russia, and India than in Europe and the United States.' He also comments: 'We see a significantly HIGHER interest in jumping on a parallelism from programmers with under 15 years experience, verses programmers with more than 15 years.' Any anecdotal evidence for or against from this community?"

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  1. Duh? by gustolove · · Score: 4, Informative

    Old programmers don't want to learn new things -- trust the tried and true.

    Young bucks want to be on the cutting edge to get the jobs that the old people already have.

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    Oh, and the people see the benefit in the other countries more than those in the U.S.? Probably not, we're just lazy American's though.

    1. Re:Duh? by CastrTroy · · Score: 4, Informative

      Most people who do anything are mediocre. Otherwise, mediocre would be redefined. It's like saying, half the people in the class scored below average. The fact that half the people scored below some value determines what the value of average is.

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      Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.