I saw this blog post from Intel’s Timothy Mattson this morning – “Parallel programming environments: less is more“, since this morning, slashdot’s picked it up too.
Here’s a link to the psychology paper cited in the post as well as a another related article “The Free Lunch is over”
I thought all of them were a good read – I think that to an extent, he makes a good argument for his point, and in the back of my mind I see the argument for one decent concurrent programming library for python (don’t worry, I’m still working on the side project – albeit interrupted and slowly).