PLNews: Programming Language News

The May 12, 2008 edition of This Week in Ruby is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Ruby community.

LLVM 2.3 Pre-Release has been released. LLVM is a portable compiler infrastructure, offering a compilation strategy that allows for compile-time, link-time, run-time and offline program optimization.

SWI-Prolog 5.6.55 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: the renaming of hash_term/2 to term_hash/2, the addition of term_hash/4, the addition of several missing ordered set operations, PlUnit enhancements, bug fixes, and other changes.

The May 12, 2008 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Python community.

EiffelStudio 6.2.7.3489 has been released. EiffelStudio is a cross-platform Eiffel implementation and development environment.

This release includes UI bug fixes, and code generation fixes.

Ctalk 0.0.51a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes DJGPP compatibility, and performance improvements.

The May 6 to 13, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Caml community.

Vala 0.3.2 has been released. Vala "aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C." It offers features such as: interfaces, properties, lambda expressions, local variable type inference, and more.

This release includes: support for class constructors, class fields, and class methods; documentation improvements; updates to the GTK+ and GLib bindings; improvements and updates to the D-Bus services; bug fixes; and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Phoenix Ruby User Group meeting will be held on May 12, 2008.

Gambas 2.6 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: IDE improvements and fixes, the correct handling of symbol polymorphism with inheritance depths greater than two, memory leak fixes, bug fixes, and other changes.

CLIS 0.8.0 has been released. It is an interpreted, C-like programming language.

This release includes support for pointers and TCP sockets.

newLISP 9.3.12 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: support for event-driven synchronization in the Cilk multiprocessing interface, support for the 'series' function taking a lambda expression, bug fixes, and other changes.

JCPP 1.2.0 has been released. It is a C preprocessor implemented in Java.

This release includes: C99 digraph support, improved #include handling, an overhaul of the main preprocessor API, support for feature and warning sets, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-05-08 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: documentation updates, new and improved functions in the seed7_05.s7i library, compiler support for generating static dispatch functions, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Leipzig Python User Group meeting will be held on May 13, 2008.

GNU Guile 1.8.5 has been released. Guile is a Scheme interpreter available as a library, designed for embedding within other applications.

This release includes: improved I/O performance, an object-based traps infrastructure, bug fixes, and other changes.

Idle 0.3.0 has been released. Idle is a scripting language built upon Lua.

This release includes: support for textual macros and source code preprocessing, library updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next London Ruby Users Group meeting will be held on May 12, 2008.

It has been announced that the next Chigaco Python User Group meeting will be held on May 8, 2008.

IronPython 2.0 Beta 2 has been released. IronPython is an implementation of Python running on .NET.

This release includes: improved performance, improved traceback support, bug fixes, and other changes.