[om-a] new list: javamath-discuss

[Richard Fateman]

The following document:

http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/6.0/doc/jlinker.htm

has a section 
Packaging Lisp applications as Java beans and servlets

suggesting that nearly anything you wish to implement in Lisp
can be accessed via a Java bean.  Thus writing symbolic
math Java stuff can be reduced to writing symbolic Lisp
stuff. This should, in principle, take the pressure off
those people who feel they must rewrite the world in the
syntax of Java. 

Bruce Char has written about writing
Java beans accessing Maple.

As another data point,
http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/6.0/doc/jlinker.htm

has a section 
Packaging Lisp applications as Java beans and servlets

suggesting that nearly anything you wish to implement in Lisp
can be accessed via a Java bean.  Thus writing symbolic
math Java stuff can be reduced to writing symbolic Lisp
stuff. This should, in principle, take the pressure off
those people who feel they must rewrite the world in the
syntax of Java. 

Concerning the general inappropriateness of writing
serious scientific software in Java,
you might also look at a paper by former Berkeley grad
student Joe Darcy (with Prof. Kahan) who wrote extensively
on why Java is bad for floating point computations.
See  "How Java Floating point hurts everyone everywhere"
  
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan.JAVAhurt.pdf

On the contrary side, you might look at the Titanium
project which suggests that a version of Java might be
useful for expressing parallelism

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/titanium/



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