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Foil 5 Biggest Problems

From Activities of the Java Grande Forum Numerics Working Group Java Grande Meeting with Sun Microsystems Menlo Park -- March 11 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Java not designed for grande apps
  • need speed, performance portability
  • need additional language support for numeric-intensive computing
Lack of numerical libraries
  • chicken and egg problem for developers

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