Datalog redux
Joseph M. Hellerstein · 2010
There is growing urgency in computer science circles regarding an impending crisis in parallel programming. Emerging computing platforms, from multicore processors to cloud computing, predicate their performance growth on the development of software to harness parallelism. For the first time in the history of computing, the progress of Moore's Law depends on the productivity of software engineers. Unfortunately, parallel and distributed programming today is challenging even for the best programmers, and simply unworkable for the majority. There has never been a more urgent need for breakthroughs in programming models and languages.