Intel to Banish Ninja programmers forever?

While detailing Intel's multi-core future, Rattner said "You think you'd have to be some kind of freak to program for multi core, but you don't have to be a ninja programmer" and then he also said, "our goal at Intel is to banish ninja programmers forever."

Ian Phillips of ARM, on Sep 5th, in our Multi-core Challenge workshop at Bristol said, "There are problems that need scientists to solve. And there are problems that don't" implying that multi-core needs sophisticated programmers. That's more pragmatic than Rattner's talk. Isn't it?

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