[petsc-dev] PETSc factories 101 and 102

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> So you guys are programming in Java-fake^™,  so good luck with that :-)
>
>
> Clojure and Scala are pretty good languages. Java being a terrible
> language does not imply that the JVM (or Dalvik) is a broken platform.
>

JVM definitely sucks (stack machine with builtin slowness), but who cares
about performance on these things.
I am writing in C.


>
>
>>   Run any good PETSc programs on a Android recently?
>
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> We should be able to do it with the native development kit.
>
>
>> Once Android is destroyed by malware and incompatible versions, iOS will
>> still be standing.
>
>
> We should start changing to review PETSc applications before people are
> allowed to run them. ;-)
>

I don't think I can ever use XCode. I am trying to think of a useful thing
I can
do on my phone that I can't do on my laptop. If I had a projector screen and
rollout keyboard, I might be able to program.

   Matt

-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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