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 The Frink Language 2008-05-21 (Default)
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Added: Sun, Sep 21st 2003 15:42 UTC (4 years, 9 months ago) Updated: Thu, Jul 3rd 2008 08:11 UTC (6 days ago)


Screenshot About:
Frink is a calculating tool and programming language designed to help you in the real world. It tracks units of measurement throughout all calculations and ensures that answers are correct. It converts between systems of measurement and has a huge library of physical data. It handles conversions between time zones, currencies, and historical values of the U.S. dollar and the British pound, translates between several languages, does date/time math, and more.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes:
This release improves symbolic manipulation of function calls that have undefined parameters. This allows much more powerful symbolic expressions to be built. In addition, functions to make deep copies of data structures were added, the .war file for deploying Frink Server Pages was fixed, and parsing of integers in Devanagari script was added (including Sanskrit written in Devanagari).

Author:
Alan Eliasen [contact developer]

Rating:
8.78/10.00 (8 votes)

Homepage:
http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/
Changelog:
http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/whatsnew.html
Jar:
http://futureboy.us/frinkjar/frink.jar
Purchase:
http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/donate.html
Mailing list archive:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/
Demo site:
http://futureboy.us/frink/

Trove categories: [change]
[Development Status]  5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]  Console (Text Based), Handheld, Handheld :: Mobile Phone, Handheld :: PDA, Handheld :: PDA :: Qtopia, MacOS X, Web Environment, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]  Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License]  Freeware, Other/Proprietary License
[Operating System]  OS Independent, SymbianOS
[Programming Language]  Java
[Topic]  Education, Internet, Scientific/Engineering, Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy, Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics, Software Development :: Interpreters, Text Processing, Text Processing :: General

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 
Project admins: [change]
» Alan Eliasen (Owner)

» Rating: 8.78/10.00 (Rank N/A)
» Vitality: 11.14% (Rank 65)
» Popularity: 5.21% (Rank 645)

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Branch Version Last release License URLs
Default 2008-07-03 03-Jul-2008 Other/Proprietary License Homepage Changelog

 Releases

Version Focus Date
2008-07-03 Minor bugfixes 03-Jul-2008 08:11
2008-06-08 Minor bugfixes 10-Jun-2008 12:30
2008-05-21 Minor feature enhancements 21-May-2008 14:00
2008-04-10 Major bugfixes 14-Apr-2008 14:00
2008-03-29 Minor bugfixes 04-Apr-2008 13:10
2008-03-01 Minor feature enhancements 01-Mar-2008 23:53
2008-01-22 Major bugfixes 22-Jan-2008 13:34
2008-01-11 Minor bugfixes 11-Jan-2008 18:23
2007-12-09 Minor feature enhancements 10-Dec-2007 15:19
2007-12-04 Minor feature enhancements 04-Dec-2007 14:33

 Comments

[»] Good
by Ice07 - Mar 11th 2007 10:16:36

Thanks, I like it very much.

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[»] version info
by Bill Poser - Dec 14th 2005 00:19:18

There doesn't seem to be any way to find out what version of
frink a particular copy is, e.g. a -v command line option.
Is there? If not, how come?

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    [»] Re: version info
    by Alan Eliasen - Dec 14th 2005 02:21:35


    > There doesn't seem to be any way to find

    > out what version of

    > frink a particular copy is, e.g. a -v

    > command line option.

    > Is there? If not, how come?

    >

    Because ye 'ave never asked, Bill, me laddie! I've had some version code floating around, but I never checked it in. You'll note that the current version of Frink (2005-12-14) does have a -v or --version command-line switch to display the version number and exit. Please see the Command-Line Options section of the documentation. Hope this helps! I may add a feature to access this programmatically later.

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[»] Frink missing Saybolt seconds?
by John Deters - Mar 1st 2004 22:04:07

Hi Alan,

As a fan of conversion utilities (you might take comfort in the fact that you're not alone,) I was just blown away by Frink. So, I've been reading units.txt (very humorous in spots, btw :-) and passed by viscosity without seeing Saybolt seconds, the measure of which is how motor oil is marketed in the U.S.

A quick google turned up a somewhat inadequate conversion chart on pump.net

I found a much better explanation here.

I don't know if you want to include any conversions (as according to Mr. Longhurst the viscosity conversion appears to be empirically derived rather than calculated.) But, I thought I'd drop you this note.

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    [»] Re: Frink missing Saybolt seconds?
    by Alan Eliasen - Mar 18th 2004 08:11:57

    Thanks for the references on the viscosity measurements! I looked a bit further and, as you mentioned, these numbers seem to be empirically measured at only a couple of very specific temperatures, so a conversion to a single viscosity value may be pretty questionable. I'll do some further research to see if this can be turned into a more continuous function for a reasonable temperature range.

    There are lots of similar physical-chemical measurements that I'd like to put into Frink, but to do it right, there are usually many parameters that need to be specified. For example, if you want to know the density of carbon, you'd also need to specify at what temperature and pressure, and what phase (e.g. graphite or diamond or buckyballs?) It's all feasible, but the number of parameters that one needs to specify (or implicitly accept defaults for) may be large.

    Thanks for the suggestions! If you can suggest an interpolating function, let me know!

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