Chapter 1. What is Concurrent Programming?
Introduction
An “ordinary” program consists of data declarations and assignment and control-flow statements in a programming language. Modern languages include structures such as procedures and modules for organizing large software systems through abstraction and encapsulation, but the statements that are actually executed are still the elementary statements that compute expressions, move data and change the flow of control. In fact, these are precisely the instructions that appear in the machine code that results from compilation. These machine instructions are executed sequentially on a computer and access data stored in the main or secondary memories.
A concurrent program is a set of sequential programs ...
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