Is the owner-computes style of parallelism, captured in a variety of data parallel languages, attractive as a paradigm for designing explicitly parallel codes? This question gives rise to a number of others. Will such use be unwieldy? Will the resulting code run well? What can such an approach offer beyond merely replicating, in a more labor intensive way, the services and coverage of data parallel languages? We investigate these questions via a simple example and a “real world” case study developed using C-Linda, an explicit parallel programming language formed by the merger of C with the Linda 1 coordination language. The results demonstrate owner-computes is an effective design strategy in Linda.