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Foil 8 Possible Grande Working Areas I

From Master Foilset for Java Grande Workshop and Forum Java 98/JavaOne Palo Alto/San Francisco -- February 28 98 March 24 98. by Geoffrey Fox
1 Language Enhancements
  • exception and floating point handling,
  • arrays -- multidimensional with contiguous storage; array syntax as in Matlab or F90
  • complex data types, operator overloading
  • templates and inlining
  • Give James Gosling the advice he asked for
2 Numerics Framework -- "Small Scale Scientific Objects":
  • Library Interfaces (FFT, Linear Algebra, Scientific visualization, MPI etc.)
  • exception structure
  • Legacy Language Subroutine Interfaces -- standard choices for mapping C and Fortran data types into Java data types
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