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From: | Marcus G. Daniels |
Subject: | Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Floating point arithmetic |
Date: | Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:23:11 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) |
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:For Java to be taken seriously as a language for scientific programming, it needs to treat floating point arithmetic with the respect it deserves
http://www.sun.com/presents/minds/2005-0302 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/673Also of interest is this language from Cray and the University of Washington:
http://chapel.cs.washington.eduBoth 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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