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...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
... 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 ...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
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....
... 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...
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...
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,...
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?...
... 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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
Parsing Errors / java.NullpointerExceptions on nokia 9210i Is there an "official"; data file for small devices? After playing around with frink on my XP...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
