Re: Java ready for number crunching?


"Kenneth P. Turvey" <kt-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I really don't think it would take much in terms of language changes to
really make Java a good language for these applications. I don't know
why Sun has decided not to target these applications.

(Disclaimer...I'm not a Java programmer, but lurking with interest (and some
amusement ) on the operator overloading anf number crunching threads)

Anyway Sun seems to be attacking the high performance problem with a new
language:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language)

IMO it has some nice ideas but "slightly ambitious syntax" eg. significant
whitespace, requires Unicode for source which IMHO is going to be
problematic... from a practical point of view. Anyway its early days...

regards
Andy Little


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