I chalked it up to a parallel versus sequential thought process that mirrors the differences between hardware and software. I don't think this is an essential

I chalked it up to a parallel versus sequential thought process that mirrors the differences between hardware and software. I don't think this is an essential difference. Programming has preferred the sequential models of computation, but more as a fashion than a necessity. Now, Turing's empire wanes as Church's empire waxes, and those parallel elements of computation that the hardware has hidden from software for so long can no longer be sequestered in silicon.