[FRIAM] deployable and open source ABMs

[Douglas Roberts]

As a former Lisp programmer who now works exclusively in C++, I always feel
horribly conflicted.

;-}


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On 11/25/06, Martin C. Martin <martin at martincmartin.com> wrote:
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> Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> > Well, I am in the camp that use C variants are best for serious
> > simulation as it factors out the uncertainties of garbage collection and
> > bytecodes interpreters/JITs.
>
> It is said that C programmers know that memory management is too
> important to be left to the computer, and the LISP programmers (and
> presumably Java programmers) know that memory management is too
> important to be left to the programmer.
>
> >  But, given that Java is so popular, and
> > that a common (but shallow) motive for its use is to make it easy to
> > show customers simulations, then the possibility of a truly dynamic
> > language that is embedded in a browser seems like an interesting step
> > forward for demos or small scale simulations.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Marcus
>
>
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