On 29 Dec 2003, Yoshihiro Itoh wrote:
>
> [quoted from http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20031217S0001 ]
> Sun wants the so-called Portable Intermediate Language and Run-Time
> Environment to become an open industry standard.
>
> The low-level software would have some support for existing computer
> languages. But users would gain maximum benefit when they generated
> the low-level code based on the new technical computing language Sun
> has asked IBM and Cray to help define.
You didn't include the next paragraph:
"Whether IBM and Cray will agree to collaborate on the effort is
unclear. Both companies have their own software plans that
include developing new languages and operating systems as part
of their competing work on the High Productivity Computing
Systems (HPCS) project under the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA)."
In other words, the 3 companies are vying for the single Phase III
contract, and it would highly unusual, to say the least, for them
to assist their competitor.
I should also point out that unless they've corrected it, Java as
it stands has some serious floating point shortcomings. See the
paper "How JAVA's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere" on the
following page:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/
If this has been rectified, I would be happy to be made aware of
it!
Ted [speaking for myself only, not as a representative of Cray]
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Frango ut patefaciam -- I break that I may reveal
(The Paleontological Society motto, equally apropos for debugging)
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