Because Funk2 is currently a very active research project, these documentation pages will not be able to explain the cutting edge features of the language and theory of causal reflection or reflective programming. For the time being, please feel free to email the author, Bo Morgan <bo@mit.edu>, if you have questions or bugs to report. There are publications about the intended uses for Funk2 here: Funk2 Home. If you have any questions, you are welcome to join our developer's mailing list, which is an open list that is meant for developers around the world to share their questions and experiences with the language and theory. You can join our public developer's mailing list here: funk2-dev Google Groups mailing list.

Funk2 currently compiles on 32-bit and 64-bit Linux operating systems. 64-bit pointers are recommended because of the amount of memory needed for the reflective capabilities; a 32-bit machine is currently only able to index a few gigabytes of memory.

Here is one straightforward way to create a new type of frame:

We can create a new dog frame like this:

We can put a new dog frame in a global variable like this:

We can set the dog's color to black like this:

We can see our globalized dog frame like this:

We can get the dog's color like this:

We can ask for brief documentation for any object like this:

We can see our new frame type like this:

Here is how to define and subsequently call a funktion:

Here is one straightforward way to write a "Hello world!" program in the Funk2 language:

Here is another more advanced way to holla your planet:

Here is how to define and subsequently call a funktion:

Here is how to loop over a list of values:

Here is how to call our funktion above in a parallel thread:

Here is how to serially filter every element in a list:

Here is how to concurrently filter every element in a list:

The scheduler:global_scheduler variable in the global environment can be used as a reference to the global funk2 scheduler for the local machine. Processor information available from "/dev/proc" during funk2 initial bootstrap compile is available for all machines currently logged into the grid. Grid support is in development, this only shows this information for the local machine. Once support for multiple machines is available, this variable will change into a funktion that takes a machine-id as an argument and returns that machine's scheduler object.

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