wizzard

Inventing new programming languages and techniques to get better performance on multicore chips goes completely in the wrong direction. We should be figuring out how we could improve programming given unbounded performance. Then figure out how to optimize it. I have come to believe that our programming languages and design patterns are all a giant case of premature optimization. So maybe we need multicore, and maybe we need to complicate programming as a result, but it is just digging ourselves deeper into the hole we’re in, and should not be celebrated.

http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=117