Jaap wrote: > > With bandwidth and memory capacity increasing exponentially, this is > > fast becoming a non-issue. > > > > I've heard that before! But I don't believe this is the panacea!
The exponential growth of computing indicates that by 2020, a $1000 computer will have the same capacity as a human brain. By 2050, a $1000 computer will have the same capacity as all the human brains on the planet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PPTExponentialGrowthof_Computing.jpg http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0134.html? To me, exponential growth seems more like magic than anything else, even if it is just simple science :-) If these projections are even close to being accurate then computer capacity is not going to be a problem for Java. I truly believe that the real issue we will be dealing with in the not so distant future is the best way to upload Sage into human brains. > Maybe java is popular, but ask your self why? Managers want it, but they > usually don't know why! Java is one of the most popular languages for manager-free open source projects on sourceforge too: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~flab/languages.html I agree, though, that Java has a significant amount of hype associated with it and this is definitely a distraction. > Ok, I once thought java was the way to go, but now I'm a convert. > I hate java. Truth be told, I like programming in Python better than Java when this is feasible. For rich cross-platform browser-based applications, however, it is difficult to beat. >E.g. why the hell the new jmoll graphics does not work on > my Fedora 7 install from the sage command line? Some of this might be due to the quickness with which jmol was added to Sage so that it could be demonstrated at the AMS meeting. Ted --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
