The Frink Language 2004-07-06

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The Frink Language 2004-05-23

The Frink Language 2004-05-23 05/24/2004 10:46 AM
A calculating tool and programming language.

The Frink Language 2004-07-20

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A calculating tool and programming language.

The Frink Language 2004-07-26

The Frink Language 2004-07-26 07/26/2004 12:37 PM
A calculating tool and programming language.

The Frink Language 2004-05-28

The Frink Language 2004-05-28 05/28/2004 01:51 PM
A calculating tool and programming language.

The Frink Language 2004-05-02

The Frink Language 2004-05-02 05/03/2004 09:36 AM
A calculating tool and programming language.

The Frink Language 2004-05-14

The Frink Language 2004-05-14 05/14/2004 01:44 PM
A calculating tool and programming language.

Language-Frink-Eval-0.01

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The Frink Language 2003-11-17

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A calculating tool and programming language.

Language-Frink-Eval-0.02

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The Frink Language 2003-12-02

The Frink Language 2003-12-02 12/04/2003 03:36 PM
A calculating tool and programming language.

The Frink Language 2005-03-22 (Default
branch)

The Frink Language 2005-03-22 (Default
branch) 03/30/2005 06:15 PM
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.

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Changes:
This release fixes a problem in displaying floating-point approximations to rational numbers when the numbers involved were very large (larger than 10^308 or so.) Previously, the approximation could display something rather useless, like "approx. NaN", "approx. Inf", or "approx. 0.0". This did not affect the correctness of any calculations, but rather solely affected the user-displayed "helpful" approximation, which sometimes wasn't helpful. In addition, an experimental installer for the Nokia 9300 and 9500 (and other Series 80 devices) was added.

Io programming language 2004-07-06
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A small prototype-based programming language.

SdlBasic GameBasic language 2004-08-02

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A simple basic interpreter for games.

Io programming language 2004-07-26
(Development)

Io programming language 2004-07-26
(Development) 07/26/2004 05:43 AM
A small prototype-based programming language.

PHP awarded Programming Language of 2004

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MetaL meta-programming language
2004.06.28

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Tiobe Software: PHP Named Language of
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According to the TIOBE Programming Community Index, PHP has been awarded the title of Programming Language of the year for 2004.

MetaL meta-programming language
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Notes and Tips: Office 2004 Language
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What kind of support does Office 2004 offer for languages like Chinese?

A real life professor frink

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Maybe the age of the individual inventor isn't over. Woody Norris is the inventor of the personal helicopter, precise Hypersonic sound emitter, and the first palm-size digital voice recorder... And never graduated from college.

Frink: un lenguaje-calculadora para
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Language Map USA

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C language API for TWS

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version 1 release candidate 1 available

Is my language really better than yours?

Is my language really better than yours? 01/07/2004 05:36 PM
The "my language is better than yours"  diatribe is perhaps one of the oldest forms of communication among developers in existence. I can remember these discussions as far back as I remember knowing at least another person capable to write...

Language-XSB-0.14

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The Data Language 0.8.5

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Language-MzScheme-0.01

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Language-MzScheme-0.06

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The Language of Force

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By now, every newsreading sentient being on the planet has heard of the New Yorker piece on how the torture happened. Part of it, that hasn’t been written up much, got me mad, red-faced sleep-stealing mad. It seems that a lot of the planning was based on amateurish racist loony-science. Everywhere you look around this story there is filth, filth...

Language-MzScheme-0.05

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Language-MzScheme-0.08

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MIND YOUR LANGUAGE

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When size does matter: Google’s superiority is under threat, writes Chris Sherman’ it said in the Guardian. Phnaah, phnaah! ...

Smarty as a "Sub-Language"

Smarty as a "Sub-Language" 03/22/2005 04:31 PM

I've been spending some time working with Smarty lately. This is ostensibly a "templating language" for PHP. But I think it goes beyond that. I assert that Smarty has become a sub-language all by itself.

(Update: I thought of a much better name for this: "sand-boxed PHP." That's what Smarty is — a sandbox into which you can release as much or as little PHP functionality as you want.)

First of all, for the record, Smarty is astonishingly well-done. Joe tried to get me to use it for about a year, and I resisted because I've hated most templating languages I had worked with. (Lately, Joe is bugging me to try Rails, so I'm sure I'll do that about a year from now. I'm usually about a year behind Joe.)

I've spent just two weeks or so with Smarty, and I'll never, ever go back. It's one of those rare things that was written the way you would have written it if you had all the time in the world and were a lot smarter than you actually are.

What I love about Smarty is the extensibility. You can take any logic and wrap it up into a function or a modifier and expose it to Smarty, so it can be used in templates. Anything — if you can write it in PHP, you can reduce and simplify it down to a tag in Smarty.

This means that you could essentially write a new programming language in Smarty — a language that runs within PHP. Smarty already includes v ariables, flow control, several built-in modifier s and functions, and an i nclude system that's essentially a way to create user-defined functions.

Once you start wrapping up some advanced functionality into Smarty tags, you could create an entire language, teach your template developers how to use it, and they'd never know they were actually using PHP unless you told them. They'd essentially be "programming" in a sub-language that runs inside of PHP. (If they ever ask you what language you're teaching them, just string three letters together — "RTI" or "DBN" or something. They'll buy it.)

Let's consider ColdFusion, which is the language we would come the closest to if we pushed Smarty as far as it could go. This code in ColdFusion pulls a recordset, loops through it, and prints everything out.

<cfquery name="news" datasource="news">
  SELECT * FROM news
</cfquery>

<cfoutput query="news">
  #news.title#
  <br>
</cfoutput>

Now, here's the same thing in a Smarty template:

{query name="news"}
  SELECT * FROM news
{/query}

{foreach from=$news item=article}
  {$article.title}
  <br>
{/foreach}

All this took was a custom, 10-line blo ck function (written like this) that allows the template author to provide the SQL statement to be executed and returns a two-dimensional array. (Before you send the hate mail, yes I know this is wrong. I know this is a perversion of everything Smarty is supposed to do. I'm just trying to make a point here.)

So Smarty can be made to function very much like ColdFusion. It's not hard to take this further. Assign the $_GET and $_POST variables, and you can provide some dynamic functionality. This assignment:

$smarty->assign('_get', $_GET);

Will let you do this in the above template:

{query name="news"}
  SELECT * FROM news WHERE title LIKE '%{$_get.q}%'
{/query}

Now template authors can create a mini-app that searches a database table. It's not hard to see how you could make scripts to let them update tables as well.

But, you may say, Smarty has to be invoked from a PHP page, so the templates cannot be URL-addressable. True, but you can automate this. You can just route all incoming requests to the same PHP page, like this:

AliasMatch ^.*$ /template_loader.php

Then, in that file, do something like this:

$smarty->display($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

This will load whatever template was called in the (fake) URL. So now template authors can start stringing templates together. Before you know it, they've gone and built a simple app. By themselves. Without you. In a language that you gave them. That runs inside of — and is essentially controlled by — PHP.

Your programming environment has now been split into a "main" language and a "sub" language, both of which you have control over. You can give your template authors as much or as little functionality as you want (you "wrote" the language, remember). They can solve as many problems as they can with what you've given them. For other problems, you can tackle them in "real" PHP and just provide the result, or you can encapsulate the algorithm and expose it to Smarty via a function or modifer.

Is this a good thing? I can't decide. But it sure is interesting, ain't it?

Language-Zcode-0.8

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The Data Language 0.8.4

The Data Language 0.8.4 09/09/2004 01:26 AM
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GDL - GNU Data Language

GDL - GNU Data Language 04/14/2004 07:34 AM
GDL 0.7.2 released

SMS SUS FAQ: Language Packs

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Language-MzScheme-0.02

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Learn a language on your PC

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