Indicated that Gosling was willing to seriously consider essential changes to Java Language
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In particular remove unrealistic goal (Kahan) that could and should get same answer on every machine
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looseNumerics modifier: allow use of full precision
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idealizedNumerics: allow aggressive compiler optimizations such as re-ordering
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Allow operator overloading which has been abused but is natural (and essential) in scientific computing
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lightweight objects needed for complex (Kahan suggests imaginary data type as in C9X language enhancement for C)
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Matrices, Rounding, Interval arithmetic, exceptions (traps v flags), subscript checking, need for better garbage collection aimed at scientific contiguous data structure, role of compilers versus language
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