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Re: Introducing FL [message #48261 is a reply to message #48144]

Tue, 04 April 2006 06:22

FL
Messages: 17
Registered: April 2006

Junior Member

Hi guys!

Now the April Fool's Day is over, so let's get back to work. People never
can decide whether I am joking or not, and this was the case here, too.
Announcing FL on April 1 was a joke, but FL itself is a serious project.
FL is really compatible with IDL. FL really runs faster than IDL. And FL
has features (eg PDF output, or line profiling) which IDL is missing.

Now you can run IDL programs under IDL, GDL and FL. That's good news.
Competition is good for the end users. Think of Intel and AMD. Without
AMD, our fastest CPU would be a 1.2 GHz Pentium III today (with a $1500
price tag :-) If FL's only effect will be that RSI creates a faster
virtual machine, then all of you will benefit from it.

In the next few months I will clean up code, fixing bugs and extending
usability. If you have any ideas about features that the language should
have, but never dared to ask for, now it's time to speak. Speak now or
forever hold your peace :-)

regards,
lajos

On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, FL wrote:

> Hi guys!
>
> The first public snapshot of Fawlty Language, an IDL compatible compiler
> is available. (IDL is a registered trademark of Research Systems Inc.)
>
> FL binaries can be freely used and downloaded from the homepage
>
> http://web.interware.hu/fl
>
>
> Available packages:
>
> fl_0.6-i686-linux.tar.gz (Linux, Pentium II.
> kernel 2.4/2.6, glibc >= 2.2.5)
>
> fl_0.6-amd64-linux.tar.gz (Linux, AMD Athlon64,
> kernel 2.6, glibc >= 2.3.3)
>
> and for the bravehearted:
>
> fl_0.6-i686-mingw.zip (Windows 2000/XP/?, Pentium II)
>
>
> Features:
>
> - all language elements are supported
>
> - multithreaded operators
>
> - array operations use MMX/SSE/SSE2, if available
>
> - module profiling
>
> - line profiling
>
> - about 280 library functions (more or less usable)
>
> - true-color (24 bit) direct graphics devices: X, WIN, PS, PDF, Z
>
> - run-time performance: for many programs, FL is faster than IDL
> (eg. the empty loop is three times faster in FL :-)
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
> fl
> (Földy Lajos)
>
>
> ps: Hungarian names are in reverse order. Wait, no! English names are
> in reverse order :-). So my name is Lajos Foldy in English.
>

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		Introducing FL By: FL on Sat, 01 April 2006 06:44
		Re: Introducing FL By: FL on Thu, 06 April 2006 09:50
		Re: Introducing FL By: Maurizio Tomasi on Thu, 06 April 2006 00:14
		Re: Introducing FL By: George N. White III on Tue, 04 April 2006 16:28
		Re: Introducing FL By: JD Smith on Tue, 04 April 2006 12:38
		Re: Introducing FL By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 04 April 2006 08:45
		Re: Introducing FL By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 04 April 2006 08:41
		Re: Introducing FL By: FL on Tue, 04 April 2006 08:21
		Re: Introducing FL By: mmiller3 on Tue, 04 April 2006 08:16
		Re: Introducing FL By: mmiller3 on Tue, 04 April 2006 08:08
		Re: Introducing FL By: mmiller3 on Tue, 04 April 2006 08:07
		Re: Introducing FL By: Ken Mankoff on Tue, 04 April 2006 07:33
		Re: Introducing FL By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 04 April 2006 06:53
		Re: Introducing FL By: FL on Tue, 04 April 2006 06:22
		Re: Introducing FL By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 04 April 2006 05:23
		Re: Introducing FL By: Ben Panter on Tue, 04 April 2006 03:13
		Re: Introducing FL By: Y.T. on Mon, 03 April 2006 21:28
		Re: Introducing FL By: Richard French on Mon, 03 April 2006 20:51
		Re: Introducing FL By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 03 April 2006 19:17
		Re: Introducing FL By: b_gom on Mon, 03 April 2006 14:59
		Re: Introducing FL By: JD Smith on Mon, 03 April 2006 13:29
		Re: Introducing FL By: Foldy Lajos on Mon, 03 April 2006 11:33
		Re: Introducing FL By: news.qwest.net on Mon, 03 April 2006 09:19
		Re: Introducing FL By: FL on Sun, 02 April 2006 12:33
		Re: Introducing FL By: biophys on Sun, 02 April 2006 12:31
		Re: Introducing FL By: biophys on Sun, 02 April 2006 12:15
		Re: Introducing FL By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 02 April 2006 11:09

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