Here's a somewhat interesting article about the upcoming "Emerging Languages Camp" at O'Reilly's OSCON conference, which discusses Frink a bit. I'll be...
The current version of Frink (available in the Android Market) fixes some problems with graphics on Android 1.5 (and other releases?) These may have caused...
Here's a little message from Frink. You can either download and run this program: http://futureboy.us/frinksamp/vd.frink Or, just execute the statement: use...
The current release of Frink has several bugfixes and improvements: * Fixed a problem that could cause the error "Error in evaluation: Expression requires 2 or...
There have been a variety of improvements to Frink, including one rather important bug. The most important bug occurred when when dividing some integer ...
I've used a few units calculators but have not yet tried Frink. Please excuse the question if this is in the documentation -- I know it's impolite, but those...
The current release (2009-09-14) of Frink fixes a potentially severe bug in class initialization that happens under certain circumstances. It is very highly...
Frink uses websites and page-scraping for many of its functions. Can Frink use SOAP/REST methods directly? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective...
The current release of Frink (2009-08-30) fixes a problem that could occur when raising a floating-point number to a large negative rational power. This could...
The Frink web site is finally back up, which should also fix problems with running Frink under Java Web Start. I had a major technical problem on the 16th and...
Adding two simple little functions to Frink has allowed it to animate graphics. The animations are remarkably smooth (double-buffered on a modern JVM) for...
In sun.frink, I noticed that sunset[] doesn't take elevation as a paramater. However, elevation does affect sunrise/set time: the greater your elevation, the...
Consider this frink program: x = new interval[-1,1] y = new interval[-1,1] println[x-y] println[x-x] The results are: [-2, 2] [-2, 2] The first one makes...
Consider this frink program: f[x] := { x+7 } println[f[y]] println[f[y]*f[y]] The results: Warning: undefined symbol "y". 7 + y Warning: undefined symbol "y". ...
The latest release of Frink has significant new functionality, especially for symbolic algebra. The compiler now tries to perform more symbolic simplification...
The latest release of Frink adds the ability to get and set individual pixels of an image, or to average the pixels in parts of an image. This allows image...
I ran the example from the documentation for graphics: g = new graphics. However in the units.txt datafile, g is used for the gram units. Is there some way to...
I probably don't understand intervals well enough yet, but if x = new interval[-2,2] [-2,2] and x^2 [0, 4] then why doesn't abs[x] yield [0,2]? Further, why...
The current release of Frink fixes some "Class not found" exceptions that may have occurred when calling some functions, notably graphics.write[] and...
I'm forwarding my follow-up message about abs[x] to the intervals list, which discusses the results of my surveys of other programming languages that implement...
I posted a query about abs[x] to the primary interval analysis mailing list last night, and have received several replies, some directly useful, some not. I'm...
The new Frink release adds some powerful new image loading and drawing capabilities! Frink now has the ability to load bitmap image files (e.g. JPEG, GIF,...
It appears that I'll be making more common announcements about new Frink releases to this list. I had previously used Freshmeat.net to make new announcements,...
There have been a variety of improvements to Frink since my last announcement on this list. Here are some of them: * Frink's graphics package now has a new...
I'm happy to announce that Frink can now draw graphics! This is probably the largest single update of Frink ever, and it adds the ability to easily draw...
Hi, I just purchased an ipod touch and was looking for a good unit converter for scientific and engineering applications. The current applications available...
I've been wanting to use frink for doing calculations internally in a program and I'm wondering if there is a supported way to do this? (its for an IRC bot)....
The link to what google considers the main Frink page at http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/ has not been functioning for 4 days. Is there a replacement...
I have fixed the calculation of Julian Day in Frink for dates B.C., including dates in the very distant past. Because Frink internally uses Julian Day to...
