PLNews: Programming Language News

An update to the F# September 2008 Community Technology Preview has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This update includes bug fixes.

cfunge 0.3.1 has been released. It is a Befunge98 interpreter.

This release includes: SOCK and SCKE fingerprints, build system improvements, and bug fixes.

It has been announced that the next (Boston Lispers) meeting will be held on September 29, 2008. Rich Hickey will present about Clojure.

The September 6, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Haskell community.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Vancouver Lisp Users Group will be held on September 25, 2008.

It has been announced that The Python Papers, Volume 3 Issue 2 is now available. The Python Papers is "a free e-journal, including industry and academic articles."

The September 4, 2008 edition of Tcl-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Tcl community.

Ctpp 1.0.44 has been released. It is a preprocessor for Ctalk, an object-oriented extension of C.

This release includes GCC compatibility fixes.

Linotte 0.5.5 has been released. It is a programming language with a syntax inspired by French.

The August 26 to September 2, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Caml community.

The 14th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming has been announced. The conference "provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries."

It will be held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, from August 31 to September 2, 2009.

Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler 1.5.0-pre4 has been released. It is a portable Occam 2.1 compiler, including extensions from a subset of Occam 3 and from pi calculus.

This release includes library updates, tool updates and bug fixes.

Seed7 2008-09-02 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, 'rflTail' and 'rflRange' raise MEMORY_ERROR instead of RANGE_ERROR when out of memory, improvements to the 'conv' operator, the addition of the 'conj' operator for the complex type, and other changes.

Mumps Compiler 11.3 has been released. It is a multi-platform compiler for a subset of the Mumps language.

Digital Mars D 2.019 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: support for struct constructors, bug fixes, and other changes.

Digital Mars D 1.035 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes bug fixes.

Frink 2008-09-02 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: cleanups to the factoring and primality testing functions, a new nextPrime[n] function, fixes, and other changes.

Kite 1.0b5 has been released. Kite is a small, object-oriented language.

This release includes: support for integer serialization, support for regular expression backtracking, strings that can safely hold binary data, fixes, and other changes.

Logtalk 2.33.0 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: improved support for using Prolog module libraries, improved performance for multithreaded applications, support for the ensure_loaded/1 and set_prolog_flag/2 directives, bug fixes, and other changes.

The F# September 2008 Community Technology Preview has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This release includes: improved scripting support, normalized compiler command line options, support for units of measure checking and inference, simpler operator definition and resolution, improved support for extending slicing operators to user-defined types, improved debugging support, the removal of some deprecated features, and other changes.