Technology trends have lead to the introduction of many-core processors in all domains of computing, leading to the inevitable consequence that parallel programs must be developed. In this talk, we first walk through an advanced example of parallel programming, namely programming the Cell B.E. processor and we point out why this is not so easy. Then, we present a first step towards making parallel programming easy for a large group of programmers. This approach uses implicit parallel programming and targets homogeneous shared-memory multi-cores