Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Floating point arithmetic

[Russell Standish]

I am very *unconvinced* that we need yet another computer language to
solve the issues. C++ works extremely well in a high performance
setting, and its curious that it wasn't mentioned in any of those
articles (only Fortran, which is becoming more C++ like by the year).

With Classdesc, most of the Reflection issues of C++ are solved - the
main thing it lacks is the ability to package a program written in it
into a pedogical applet. Speculating here, this could be done by
providng a C++ version of the Java GUI envrionment, and a C++ -> JVM
compiler.

Cheers

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 04:23:11PM -0600, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Thanks for posting this, Gary.   I remember seeing a document like this 
> several years ago, but it appears to be evolving.. ;-)
> 
> >For Java to be taken seriously as a language for scientific
> >programming, it  needs to treat floating point arithmetic with the respect 
> >it deserves
> >
> Sun is working on a new language for scientific computing.   I think it 
> sounds pretty interesting.  I guess their answer to Java's criticisms 
> boils down to "you are using the wrong language".   Check it out:
> 
> http://www.sun.com/presents/minds/2005-0302
> http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/673
> 
> Also of interest is this language from Cray and the University of 
> Washington:
> 
> http://chapel.cs.washington.edu
> 
> Both languages have explicit support for parallelism, generics (a.k.a. 
> templates), and many other things. 
> 
> Perhaps one of these languages would make a good foundation for a next 
> generation agent simulation system?
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