We are initially just trying to choose a language for the development of the data structure library.

By having strongly defined interface boundaries this modules should be callable from many different languages,
initially most importantly, C and Fortran.

This list is being developed and will be up to the committee to refine it and define the weightings of various parts.

Criteria

  * Programmer experience, productivity

  * Code transfer

  * Compiler support, debugging, profiling, maturity

  * Computation efficiency

  * Portable interface

  * Libraries (use of blas, MPI, sparse matrices)

  * Methods/Function pointers