Bifurcation

The IT community:

Shared memory programming (pthreads) is awful! Message-passing (Erlang) would make our lives so much easier!

The high-performance computing community:

Message-passing (MPI) is awful! Shared-memory programming (OpenMP, PGAS) would make our lives so much easier!

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