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26-MAY-2013: / The introductory booklet has been revised, some (minor) faults have been corrected and user input is now printed in red to distinguish it clearly from various system outputs. 04-MAY-2013: ------------ + Part of the distribution kit is now a free book about the design and implementation of Lang5. It is named design_and_implementation.pdf and can be found in the directory named "doc". This book is intended to be used for self-study as well as an introductory text into the implementation of small interpreters. - Removed the old introductory text. / Fixed some nasty bugs in handling arrays and variables. (In fact, always pushing references onto the central stack resulted in some hard to debug phenomena - such data is now cloned using dclone from Array::DeepUtils before pushing a reference onto the stack.) 04-APR-2013: / Corrected a rather nasty bug that made it impossible to push the string '; onto the stack (which caused the sort example to fail, among other programs). / Corrected some examples which did not work any longer due to some subtle changed in the interpreter. The matrix-vector-multiplication example even got simpler. :-) + There is now a tangens word in mathlib.5 20-OCT-2011: ------------ + There are two new operators available: === and eql. Both work similar to the traditional comparison operators == and eq with the distinction that 0, "" and undef are handled as different values, so "0 undef ===" will yield 0 and not 1. / CTRL-C is now handled correctly. A lang5-program containing an endless loop etc. can now interactively interrupted by pressing CTRL-C. If the interpreter was running in interactive mode this signal will return to the input prompt. / Update of the documentation. 30-AUG-2011: ------------ / According to our doodle poll the language has been renamed to lang5. This was mainly due to the following facts: 1) lang5 had the most votes, 2) SOLVO has been already used for consulting companies, data extraction software etc. and 3) lang5 already yields a number 1 hit in google. / The documentation has been extended a bit. + The '*-operator has been overloaded to perform matrix-matrix-multiplications, too. 06-AUG-2011: ------------ * 5 is now at version 1.0!!! :-) + Added new function "transpose" to perform a generalized matrix transposition. / Updated the documentation (transpose + a more detailed description of the Game-of-Life example). 01-AUG-2011: ------------ + New generic function "rotate" added - this replaces the 5-implemented rmx and rmy functions in a general way. rmx and rmy have been remove from stdlib.5 + Documentation reflects these changes. / The Game-of-Life-example has been adapted to the rotate function (and runs now approximately 5 times faster :-) ). 26-JUL-2011: ------------ + Two new words for matrix rotation along their x- and y-axis have been added to stdlib.5 (rmx and rmy). + A new example has been added: Conway's game of life. ! Lots of bugfixes and cleanups. 06-JUL-2011: ------------ + execute can now work on arrays of strings containing 5 program sequences. This is very useful to avoid explicit loops by unrolling loops into such arrays and processing them with execute. + exit did not end a program, instead it caused the next instruction(s) to be read but then the interpreter collapsed. This has been fixed, too, exit does now what one would expect from it. :-) + A new example (the most complicated until now) has been added. It shows the calculation of a Mandelbrot set without any explicit loops (execution time is rather high - expect a run time of about 1 minute!). + The documentation has been updated and expanded. + Some additional operators have been overloaded to work on complex numbers. 29-JUN-2011: ------------ + The documentation is now up to date and has been enhanced a lot! :-) + A minor bug in explain was fixed that prevented the interpreter from loading workspace files that had been created using the word save. + Two support words were made local in stdlib.5 and mathlib.5. 24-MAY-2011: ------------ + 5 is now able to work with overloaded operators. Therefore types were introduced in the form of "dressed structures". The following example will show the basic idea (the documentation is still a bit behind - sorry!): [[1 2 3][4 5 6][7 8 9]](m) [10 11 12](v) This will create a matrix with "dress" (m) and a vector, dressed as (v). Performing a matrix-vector-multiplication can now be performed by typing * . This works since * has been overloaded in lib/mathlib.5 (have a look). + The interpreter has undergone major changes. 29-JAN-2011: ------------ + A lot of major changes has happened - mostly due to Thomas' great work. The most important aspect is that most of the basic array functions have now found their way into an own module that will some day published on CPAN. + Fixed some minor problems in the mathlib. 20-SEP-2010: ------------ + Added a new word, dreduce, to stdlib.5. + Modified ".s" in stdlib.5 to yield more readable output. + Added a new example for calculating perfect numbers. + Updated the documentation. 06-AUG-2010: ------------ + The interpreter can now handle things like 1 [1 2 3] - . + We sped up the interpreter by a factor of about 3 yesterday using the NYTProf profiler Tim Bunce demonstrated on the YAPC::Europe 2010. :-) 21-JUN-2010: ------------ + Added readline functionality to 5, so it is now possible to use command line editing functions. Unfortunately this currently works not on Windows and VMS systems. 05-JUN-2010: ------------ ! "rho" and "dim" have been renamed "reshape" and "shape" to be more compatible with APL and even Fortran 2003. :-) The documentation and examples etc. have been adapted accordingly. + Added an additional sanity check for "copy" which detects non-uniform coordinate vectors. + "reshape" can now handle scalar values as well, 1 10 reshape will yield a ten element vector [1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]. + The dice example has been changed to make use of "reshape". + An additional example has been included which computes all numbers between 1 and 999 which equal the sum of the cubes of their individual digits. 31-MAY-2010: ------------ + subscript can now handle even complex coordinate vectors and is not restricted to selecting elements along the first dimension only, as the following example shows: 64 iota [4 4 4] rho [1 [1 2] [1 2 3]] subscript . + Added a function "copy" which copies successive elements from a deeply nested structure, controlled by a two element coordinate vector which contains the coordinates of the upper left and lower right corner of an n-dimensional sub-cube of the basic nested structure. The following example shows the behaviour of copy quite well: 64 iota [4 4 4] rho [[1 1 1] [2 2 2]] copy . + Added a function "help" which prints the description of builtin functions and operators. Try '+ help + The output generated by specifying the statistics option -s now contains the maximum stack depth encountered during a program run (this value is surprisingly small). + Quite some comments have been added to the interpreter code to make it more readable and extensible. + Made some minor changed to stdlib.5 (extract had to be adapted to the new implementation of subscript) and mathlib.5. 04-MAY-2010: ------------ + Fixed a problem with local stacks (thanks, Thomas! :-) ) + Adapted the health_check to the fact that "deptbh" is now a function + Adapted the documentation and included an additional example concerning Fibonacci numbers 02-MAY-2010: ------------ 5 is now available in version 0.1! :-) The documentation is up to date by now and reflects the current interpreter version. More examples have been written.