The paper talks about how C is designed for a PDP architecture and that's the problem. Is there any language that is not that way and can handle parallelism and

The paper talks about how C is designed for a PDP architecture and that's the problem. Is there any language that is not that way and can handle parallelism and all the things mentioned in the paper? Yes, I do see Erlang mentioned but I don't think it was considered a solution.