PLNews: Programming Language News

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.

Frink 2007-08-04 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 a fix for a problem with break statements.

Frink 2007-07-09 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 fixes.

Frink 2007-07-06 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: updates to the eval[x] function to accept and evaluate each element of an array of values, and examples of parsing files with units of measure.

Frink 2007-07-02 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 the addition of functions for creating arrays of Java objects and primitive types.

Frink 2007-06-28 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 calling of Java methods from within Frink, and other changes.

Frink 2007-06-19 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 labeled break statements, improvements to interval arithmetic on transcendental functions, and the addition of functions for calculating partitions of integers.

Frink 2007-06-07 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 addition of several symbolic expression simplifications, and a bug fix for when multiplying by zero.

Frink 2007-05-31 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 symbolic math support, new functions, improved error messages, and other changes.

Frink 2007-05-22 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: support for patterns with constraints, improved support for performing algebra and derivatives, and other changes.

Frink 2007-05-17 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 allowing patterns to match arbitrary functions, a new symbolic mode, an experimental standalone Windows executable, new options for formatting numerical values, and other changes.

Frink 2007-04-30 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 addition of the arccosh[x] function, and fixes to the foreign language translations.