Welcome to the Frink mailing list. This is intended to be a high-quality, useful list discussing the Frink programming language / calculating tool. I've set...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jun 30, 2004 4:50 am
... Thanks! ... If you're talking very short times, you may be right. But since microwaves have a frequency of about 2.4 GHz, the power delivered is...
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chasrmartin
Jun 30, 2004 5:02 am
Hey, Alan -- I'd love to get more statistical functions added. Is there a good way in Frink to preload additional classes?...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jun 30, 2004 5:23 am
... Ach, statistics... I have little or no statistical functions, but I'd love to add them. My question back is, are they Java classes or Frink classes? There...
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David Bergman
davber42
Jun 30, 2004 3:32 pm
Alan, I have been thinking [well, kind of...] and think you should setup a web service [basically with HTTP PUT capability] to allow the Frink community to...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jun 30, 2004 9:02 pm
... You can do much of that already (except for the upload part.) The "use" statement can handle FILE, HTTP or FTP URLs (or any URLs your JDK has handlers ...
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David Bergman
davber42
Jun 30, 2004 9:23 pm
... I know. It was the upload area part that I liked. ... I think that idea, of actually revising everything, before "submission" is terrific. You could...
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Marcus Downing
shrink_laureate
Jul 15, 2004 8:40 am
i just moved to using Firefox (mozilla) instead of NetCaptor, and quickly found the need for a search plugin for Frink. It was pretty easy to make, for one...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 17, 2004 1:40 am
... Sorry--I just got to this in my mailbox! I'll certainly host a URL. So what does your search plugin search? I guess a search plugin could work like the...
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Marcus Downing
shrink_laureate
Jul 19, 2004 8:43 am
At present it just fires the contents of the search box as a calculation into Frink. Thinking about it, units lookup be best as a separate search plugin....
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 21, 2004 3:36 am
... Thanks for sending the search plugin! I've tweaked it a little bit (and tweaked the web page slightly to make it easier to parse.) It still does pretty...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 25, 2004 8:25 am
From the "it's about time" file... I've rewritten much of Frink's lexer to make sure that it knows the name of the file or URL it's parsing (previously, one...
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David Bergman
davber42
Jul 25, 2004 3:48 pm
Hey, Alan, I sense a lack of genericity here ;-) What happens to the reflexive developers out there, wanting to create the "Frink streams" on the fly,...
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Marcus Downing
shrink_laureate
Jul 26, 2004 9:01 am
Perhaps generated code could get wrapped in a fake file? "Syntax error in generated code, line 3165, near column 2" Or is there some better way of reporting?...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 26, 2004 2:31 pm
... This is actually what happens. The programmer must at least pass in a human-readable string describing where the code came from. You'll see things like...
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David Bergman
davber42
Jul 26, 2004 3:06 pm
Ok, I have asked for this before... When using Frink, one of the biggest annoyances is the uniform handling of unit vectors and scalars (read "numerals";.) The...
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Marcus Downing
shrink_laureate
Jul 26, 2004 3:42 pm
Makes sense to me....
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David Bergman
davber42
Jul 26, 2004 4:19 pm
An addendum, perhaps: division between unit vectors (such as 'm' and 's') should be at the same (high) precedence as juxtaposed multiplication. The only little...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 8, 2004 3:48 am
... Sorry about not getting to this sooner, but the paying job has been taking up all my time. And then some. This is an issue that's I've thought about since...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 8, 2004 4:54 am
The latest versions of Frink (one released today) have some minor improvements. The largest improvement can be seen when running programs through the AWT GUI...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Sep 21, 2004 7:40 am
To hopefully promote world understanding, or to inadvertently cause the next world war, the latest version of Frink can now translate to/from Swedish and...
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Marcus Downing
shrink_laureate
Sep 21, 2004 10:48 am
I've forwarded this to my father, who knows a little Arabic....
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knbknb00
Oct 8, 2004 5:55 pm
Parsing Errors / java.NullpointerExceptions on nokia 9210i Is there an "official"; data file for small devices? After playing around with frink on my XP...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Oct 9, 2004 5:22 am
Hi Knut, I have some answers to your questions below. ... At the moment, all devices use the same data file. ... Does something like 2+2 work? Do any...
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knbknb00
Oct 11, 2004 7:56 am
Hi Alan, thanks for answering and providing hints. I'll try some of them during this week. Meanwhile, I've been investigating around with frink on the ...
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knbknb00
Oct 14, 2004 7:57 am
Hello all, here I have put a web page that shows a series of screenshots with my experiments of frink running on a real nokia communicator 9210i. ...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Oct 22, 2004 7:33 am
This week, I was flattered to be invited to submit a paper on Frink for a conference on "Lightweight Languages" at MIT: http://ll4.csail.mit.edu/ I'm...
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Marcus Downing
shrink_laureate
Oct 22, 2004 10:10 am
Wow. Good luck. I'd say what sets Frink apart is the way it encourages a scientific way of thought. it's a generally accepted fact that the language somebody...
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Charles R Martin
chasrmartin
Oct 22, 2004 1:38 pm
Alan -- I've done about a zillion talks and I've got 20+ papers and I don't know how many conference presentations. If you'd like to get together for lunch or...
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David Bergman
davber42
Oct 22, 2004 5:14 pm
Alan, This is a good opportunity to promote your "baby." Language ... I would focus on the integration of dimensions into the core of a modern object-oriented...
