New Intermediate Language Proposed

WillOutPower writes "Sun is inviting Cray (of supercomputer fame) and IBM (needs no introduction...) to join and create a new intermediate run-time language for high-performance computing. Java's bytecode, Java Grande, and Microsoft's IL language for the Common Language Runtime, it seems a natural progression. I wonder if the format will be in XML? Does this mean ubiquitous grid computing? Maybe now I won't have to write my neural network in C for performance :-)"

Comments

I bet the format turns out to be...

[Anonymous Coward]

...binary.

Re:I bet the format turns out to be...

[biobogonics]

When you consider the radical changes that have taken place between the standards for 66, 77, 90, 95 and proposed for 2000, I bet the format turns out to be Fortran.

XML ?

[noselasd]

Did I see XML and performance in the same sentence ?! ... brain overload.. does not make sense...

Re:XML ?

[benjamindees]

I saw that too.
Then I saw Posted by michael and everything was better.

Re:XML ?

[mabinogi]

That may be true, but XML would be a great way to bring them back!

Re:Next try?

[be-fan]

Eh? I think that's a large coffee at Starbucks. I think it goes "Java short," "Java tall," and "Java grande."

but the biggest question is...

[b17bmbr]

The effort is part of a government-sponsored program under which the three companies are competing to design a petascale-class computer by 2010.

will sun survive until then?

What struck me was this

[Anonymous Coward]

"I wonder if the format will be in XML? [...] Maybe now I won't have to write my neural network in C for performance"

Is he on crack? :-)

Re:Next try?

[The Lynxpro]

"One thing puzzles me, however. What is Java grande? Was it so shortlived that I missed it?"

Better yet, where is Java Venti?

If you stop and think about it, what could a Sun/Starbucks partnership entail? The Starbucks card working on the SunRay platform, taking your virtual login identity to every Starbucks location you frequent? Even better to realize that just about all Starbucks locations have WiFi hotspots. Oh the conspiracy!

Please clarify

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it the 'XML' and 'performance' or fact that you found a complete sentence on Slashdot sending your brain into overload?

C-Bonics

[Epistax]

I propose that this intermediate language be called C-Bonics, and it should be taught in all classrooms in place of C. Many people don't learn proper C in their homes so it isn't fair to force them to do it in school.

XML?

[CatOne]

Why, so intermediate files can be 100 times larger than they already are? :-P

My God, they've reinvented CADOL

[rs79]

Why is it I find PARROT more readable than Perl?

English as an intermediate language?

[rice_burners_suck]

I propose that the new high performance intermediate language be English. You would code in it as follows:

Computer, please allocate some room on the stack for a variable, and please call that variable 'i'. Thank you, Computer. Now, computer, please set the value of the aforementioned variable, 'i', to zero. Thank you, Computer.

..... I don't have the patience to write more of this crap.

so let me get this straight...

[Kunta Kinte]

The question for potential users is: why wait until 2010 when the CLR is already here? And why trust Sun after they have disappointed the community so thoroughly, both in terms of broken promises on an open Java standard and in terms of technology?

You don't trust Sun, so you're recommending...

Microsoft????

Ohh-kayyy..., next post please.