The worthwhile areas of attention involve how numbers are defined and supported in J, and whether this is adequate for practical purposes.
The valuable sort of examination can be found in the following paper, for example: How Java's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere by W. Kahan and J. D. Darcy (March 1998) http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf I am not qualified to compare how J stands with regard to the criticisms raised by the authors of that paper, but I can recommend such discussion. I would definitely be interested to hear J considered with reference to the particular claims in this paper. Tracy Harms __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
