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Foil 6 Why is Java Worth Looking at?

From Java Grande: Is Java Useful in MPP/HPCC Environments? Frontiers 99 Conference Annapolis -- February 21-25 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


The Java Language has several good design features
  • secure, safe (wrt bugs), object-oriented, familiar (to C C++ and even Fortran programmers)
Java has a very good set of libraries covering everything from commerce, multimedia, images to math functions (under development at http://math.nist.gov/javanumerics)
Java has best available electronic and paper training resources
Children will learn Java (and other POW technologies) as it is a social language with natural graphical "hello world"
Java is rapidly getting best integrated program development environments
Java naturally integrated with network and universal machine supports potentially powerful "write once-run anywhere" model
There is a large and growing trained labor force
Can we exploit this in Grande Applications?



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