PLNews: Programming Language News

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.

Frink 2007-04-12 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 includes: performance improvements to the addition/string concatenation operator, changes to the order of operations for addition versus string concatenation, and other changes.

Frink 2007-03-30 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 improvements to the integrated help system.

Frink 2007-03-09 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: an updated algorithm for calculating distance and bearing on the earth, a restructuring of the libraries, rewritten samples programs, and other changes.

Frink 2007-03-05 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 sample scripts to start Frink in command-line mode, and changes to properly parse U.S. Bureau of Labor Consumer Price Index files.

Frink 2007-02-22 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 fixes so that foreign language translations work under Java 6 and Java Web Start.

Frink 2007-02-06 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: language translation fixes, and the allocation of certain objects from a cache to reduce memory usage and garbage collection.

Frink 2007-02-01 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 using numbers or other units as keys to dictionaries, and support for toggling the display of floating point approximations to rational numbers.

Frink 2007-01-29 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: improvements to multiplication by the integer 0, improvements to the exponentiation of purely imaginary numbers, plus other changes and fixes.

Frink 2007-01-26 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 messageDigest function for generating cryptographic hashes, and the addition of a "break" keyword for escaping from loops.

Frink 2007-01-09 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 historical British price data updated through to the end of 2005, and new sample programs.

Frink 2007-01-01 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: functions for modular division and finding modular inverses, updated sanity checks for the year 2007, fixes to some mappings between Frink and Java, plus other changes.

Frink 2006-12-29 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 the addition of an array.permute[] method, and improved error messages when objects are not comparable.