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Dave Thomas, who was one of the writers of the agile manifesto in an interview: "What's wrong with current programming is something that almost everyone recognizes and most people hope will go away: Moore's Law still applies and for that to have happened, we find that the architectures of our machines have changed dramatically. So, we're looking at multicore, hyperthreading, off-loading processing on to GPUs, and so on. My laptop has a billion transistors in it, which is incredible. And no one can keep a billion transistors busy if they're doing sequential coding. You have to partition the work and do multiple pieces at the same time. And our tools for doing that at the moment are remarkably primitive. They're based on evolving old models. It's like we're saying we got here with object orientation and now we have to make it work concurrently — just slap a few more primitives in and hope. The reality is that doesn't work that well. Clearly, it works, but it takes a lot of effort and it's error-prone." www.drdobbs.com/.../240166688 Read the whole interview, it's worth your time.
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