PLNews: Programming Language News

Frink 2009-04-18 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes fixes.

Frink 2009-04-09 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes support for loading, drawing, saving and manipulating images.

Frink 2009-03-28 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes improvements to the graphics library.

Frink 2009-03-10 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes improvements to the graphics library.

Frink 2009-03-03 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: the suppression of unnecessary messages when calling graphics.show[] at the end of a program, and fixes for overflow problems.

Frink 2009-02-04 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: support for incrementally re-painting on-screen graphics on demand, functions for tracking leap seconds, and updated currency codes.

Frink 2008-10-21 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: improved support for text alignment, and bug fixes.

Frink 2008-10-15 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: support for drawing high-quality text, support for rendering text and graphics to various image file formats, and support for printing text and graphics.

Frink 2008-10-09 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes support for drawing graphics.

Frink 2008-09-02 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: cleanups to the factoring and primality testing functions, a new nextPrime[n] function, fixes, and other changes.

Frink 2008-08-25 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes improvements to the Swing-based GUI.

Frink 2008-02-23 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes a rewrite of the Swing GUI.

Frink 2008-08-02 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: more consistent handling of the switch between the Julian and the Gregorian calendars, updates to the astronomy libraries, functions to control output format, and other changes.

Frink 2008-07-03 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes bug fixes.

Frink 2008-07-03 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes bug fixes.

Frink 2008-05-21 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: improved symbolic manipulation of function calls that have undefined parameters, functions for making deep copies of data structures, support for the parsing of integers in Devanagari script, and other changes.

Frink 2008-03-29 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: efficient functions for calculating binomial coefficients, the suggestion of more conversion factors upon an invalid conversion, and fixed historical British currency conversions.

Frink 2008-03-01 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes support for representing fractional exponents of base dimensions.

Frink 2008-01-22 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: a multi-line input mode for the AWT GUI, and a fix for a bug when dividing large integers.

Frink 2008-01-11 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: new methods to push and pop elements from the front of an array, new sample programs, improved errors for method calls, bug fixes, and other changes.

Frink 2007-12-09 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: methods for permuting arrays in lexicographic order, support for anonymous functions with no bodies, improved graphical user interface support, and updates to the astronomical libraries.

Frink 2007-12-04 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: expanded graphical user interface examples, enhancements to the sun.frink astronomical library, bug fixes, and other changes.

Frink 2007-11-28 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: tools to build graphical UIs from within Frink, and improvements and fixes to the calling of Java functions from Frink.

Frink 2007-09-29 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: a sum[x] function for summing the elements of an array or an enumerating expression.

Frink 2007-09-14 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: foreign translation fixes, and the addition of functions to test the types of numeric values and to return lists of characters in a string.