there are no 'silver bullets'.

google has solved the 'get massive' partly in using the 'Map Reduce' [0] algorythm written in cpp. So looking at one particular language [1] alone to solve the problem(s) of parallel processing is bogus.

Reference

[0] Map Reduce, 'Google MapReduce tool'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapreduce [Accessed Tuesday, 6 March, 2007]

[1] Joel On Software, 'Can Your Programming Language Do This?'

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html [Accessed Tuesday, 6 March, 2007]