PLNews: Programming Language News

Frink 2006-12-27 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 a "Save History" menu item to the AWT GUI for saving calculations to a text file, and documentation warnings about possible Daylight Saving Time conversion problems with outdated JVMs.

Frink 2006-10-17 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 functions for generating uniformly distributed random numbers, plus new and updated particle physics constants.

Frink 2006-09-25 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 the addition of an array.shallowCopy[] method, and a sample periodic table of the elements.

Frink 2006-07-21 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 a more robust eval[string] function.

Frink 2006-05-24 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 bug that may occur on handheld devices or third-party JVMs.

Frink 2006-05-16 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 an order dependency when constructing cyclical classes that contain class-level members of their own type.

Frink 2006-05-11 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: a fix for a bug involving certain cyclic class definitions, an update of the cached exchange rate for Platinum, plus other changes.

Frink 2006-05-05 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 several function call optimizations.

Frink 2006-04-19 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: the addition of arccsch[x] and arcsinh[x] functions, optimization improvements, and the ability to look in a standard library for files.

Frink 2006-02-28 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 performance improvements, and fixes an infinite loop with cyclic class definitions.

Frink 2006-02-23 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 Java Web Start-related changes, and the array method removeValue returns a boolean value indicating whether the value was found.

Frink 2006-01-18 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 the official release of the Mac OS X Dashboard widget. It also includes a rewrite of the AWT GUI to run interactive calculations in a separate thread.

Frink 2006-01-10 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This Swing GUI now requires Java 1.5 or later. This release also includes a trial Dashboard widget for Mac OS X, and altered Java Web Start files.

Frink 2006-01-04 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 updated sanity checks for the year 2006, plus other changes.

Frink 2005-12-04 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 compatibility fixes for Java 1.1 platforms, and pack200 compression for Java 1.5 and later.

Frink 2005-11-13 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 faster factor function for numbers of certain forms, improvements to the isPrime function, and support for the exponentiation operator to return an exact real-valued root when possible for exact rational exponents.

Frink 2005-11-02 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 fixes the foreign language translations, and improves calculations of the Julian day from dates 1 BC and earlier.

Frink 2005-09-12 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 fixes a null pointer exception, and adds a method to remove items that have a certain value from arrays, plus other changes.

Frink 2005-09-05 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 format function which allows for more complex expressions and intervals, interval arithmetic support for the two-argument arctan function, dynamic time predictions which take into account the leap second to be introduced at the end of 2005, and a correction to the historical value of the British noble coin.

Frink 2005-08-17 has been released. It is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release fixes the error messages produced when converting between units with different dimensions.