PLNews: Programming Language News

Gambas 2.1 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: support for 64-bit systems, support for OpenBSD, IDE improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

REALbasic 2008 Release 1 has been announced. REALbasic is an object-oriented BASIC dialect and development environment, supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

This release will include: support for introspection, additional language features and other improvements.

BBC BASIC for Windows 5.80a has been released. It is a BBC BASIC implementation for Windows systems.

This release includes: improved support for console programs, improved QBasic compatibility, support for high-numbered I/O devices, support for right-to-left printing languages, bug fixes, and other changes.

Run BASIC Personal Server v1.0 has been released. Run BASIC is a Web-based BASIC implementation built upon Liberty BASIC.

FreeBASIC 0.18.3b has been released. FreeBASIC is an open-source BASIC compiler offering compatibility with Microsoft QuickBasic, while also adding features such as inline assembly, pointers, unsigned data types, and more.

This release includes: support for CONST qualifiers, improved QuickBasic compatibility, bug fixes, and other changes.

Gambas 2.0 RC2 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: improvements to the development environment, support for displaying rich text in GridView cells, and Observer class support for catching events after they have been processed.

Gambas 1.9.91 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: support for using Gambas as a scripting language, improvements to the IDE icon editor, enhancements to the gb.pdf component, and interpreter support for returning error stacktraces.

The Visual Basic Language Specification 9.0 (Beta 2) document is now available. "The Visual Basic Language Specification provides a complete description of the Visual Basic language 9.0.

Gambas 1.9.90 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: the removal of the gb.ldap component, bug fixes, and other changes.

Gambas 1.9.51 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: improved translations, IDE enhancements, new examples, compiler and interpreter bug fixes, new and updated modules, plus other changes and fixes.

Carl Gundel has announced that beta testers are required for Run BASIC Personal Server. Run BASIC is a Web-based BASIC implementation built upon Liberty BASIC.

REALbasic 2007 Release 4 has been released. REALbasic 2007 is an object-oriented BASIC dialect and development environment, supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

This release includes: official support for Ubuntu, ODBC plug-in performance improvements, debugger improvements, support for delegates, and other changes.

BBC BASIC for Windows 5.70a has been released. It is a BBC BASIC implementation for Windows systems.

This release includes: improved support for finding the size of a structure, editor improvements, improved function key macros, extended text cursor shape control, and other changes.

Chipmunk Basic 3.6.4(b1) has been released. It is a cross-platform BASIC interpreter, supporting Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

This release includes: 'det' and 'dot' functions, support for comments at the beginning of if-endif statement blocks, the addition of legacy for-next syntax support, bug fixes, and other changes.

Gambas 1.9.50 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: improvements to the gb.gtk module, new examples, database driver fixes, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Gambas 1.0.19 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: a Russian translation, as well as bug and memory leak fixes.

REALbasic 2007 Release 3 has been released. REALbasic 2007 is an object-oriented BASIC dialect and development environment, supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

This release includes: support for namespaces, plus other changes.

Gambas 1.0.18 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes a variety of bug fixes.

Gambas 1.9.49 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: compiler speed optimizations, interpreter optimizations, development environment improvements, plus other changes and bug fixes.

BBC BASIC for Windows 5.60a has been released. It is a BBC BASIC implementation for Windows systems.

This release includes: the implementation of EXIT FOR, EXIT REPEAT and EXIT WHILE; support for a Step Line debugging facility; plus other changes.

BCET beta 004 has been released. BCET is a BASIC implementation.

This release includes a new driver program, and other changes.

The Amsterdam Compiler Kit 6.0pre3 has been released. The ACK is an optimizing, retargetable, open source compiler suite supporting a variety of languages, including C, Pascal, Modula-2, BASIC, and Occam.

This release includes: support for generating CP/M binaries using the 8080 code generator, improved ANSI C headers, improved floating-point support, optimizations, bug fixes, and other changes.

The Amsterdam Compiler Kit 6.0pre2 has been released. ACK is an optimizing, retargetable, open source compiler suite supporting a variety of languages, including C, Pascal, Modula-2, BASIC, and Occam.

This release includes: limited support for i386 Linux binaries, syscall changes, the removal of the K&R C compiler, changes to the built-in libc, plus other changes and bug fixes.

REALbasic 2007 Release 2 has been released. REALbasic 2007 is an object-oriented BASIC dialect and development environment, supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

This release includes: support for incremental compilation, debugger improvements, RTF support, and other changes.

Gambas 1.9.48 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: support for localization-aware string comparisons, changes to the behaviours of Split() and Join(), plus other changes and bug fixes.