PLNews: Programming Language News

EuroForth 2009 has put out a call for papers. It is "an annual conference on the Forth programming language, stack machines, and related topics".

The deadline for draft papers is May 29, 2009. The conference will be held from September 4 to 6, 2009, at the University of Exeter in England.

4tH 3.5d has been released. 4tH is a portable, open source Forth implementation.

This release includes: FP library bug fixes, new words, the removal of 'AS', a new example program, documentation updates, and other changes.

Reva 9.0 has been released. Reva is a Forth implementation running on Windows and Linux.

This release includes bug fixes.

IsForth 1.22b has been released. It is a Forth compiler for 32-bit Linux.

amforth 3.2 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the AVR ATmega microcontroller family.

This release includes bug fixes and other changes.

amforth 3.1 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the AVR ATmega microcontroller family.

This release includes: dictionary storage changes, the new environment? word, and other changes.

Gforth 0.7.0 has been released. Gforth is a portable ANS Forth implementation.

This release includes: the changing of the license to the GPLv3, performance improvements, new flags, improved Forth 200x support, support for 0x has a hex prefix and # as a decimal prefix, Unicode support, new and improved words, improved documentation, new libraries, and other changes.

Michael4 0.2 has been released. It is an interpreter for a Forth-like language.

This release includes: the addition of the SEE function, and bug fixes.

amforth 3.0 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the AVR ATmega microcontroller family.

This release includes: experimental support for the A/B Forth VM registers as discussed at EuroForth 2008, re-written pictured numeric output support, bug fixes, and other changes.

VFX Forth for Windows v4.21 has been released. VFX Forth for Windows is an ANS Forth implementation, including a optimizing code generator and other development tools.

This release includes COM and ActiveX support.

It has been announced that the proceedings and photographs from EuroForth 2008 are now available online. "EuroForth is an annual conference on the Forth programming language, stack machines, and related topics, and has been held since 1985."

A call for papers has been put out for Forth Day 2008. Forth Day 2008 will be held on November 15, 2008.

amforth 2.9 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the AVR ATmega microcontroller family.

This release includes: the addition of some standard words; the conversion of heap, here and edp to VALUEs; more VT100 sequences; bug fixes; and other changes.

MID4th 1.44 has been released. It is an open source Forth implementation for mobile devices.

This release includes: the new JOY word, support for UTF-8 and UTF-16 input, a working block editor, improved error handling, and other changes.

amforth 2.8 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the AVR ATmega microcontroller family.

This release includes: the movement of the serial interface words to the application dictionary, a sieve benchmark example, bug fixes, and other changes.

4tH 3.5c release 3 has been released. 4tH is a portable, open source Forth implementation.

This release includes: support for most words of the FLOATING and FLOATING EXT wordsets, and fixes for bugs in the 'mixed' library.

It has been announced that registration for EuroForth 2008 is now open. "EuroForth is an annual conference on the Forth programming language, stack machines, and related topics, and has been held since 1985."

The early registration deadline is June 26, 2008, with the regular registration deadline being August 19, 2008. The conference will be held from September 26 to 28, 2008, in Vienna, Austria.

iForth32 3.0 has been released. iForth32 is a portable, multithreaded 32-bit ANS Forth implementation.

This release includes: support for OS-level threads and callbacks, a new graphics driver for X, new sound drivers, improved path name support, and other changes.

StrongForth 1.4 has been released. It is a statically-typed Forth-like language, with an implementation for DOS.

This release includes: support for object-oriented programming, and documentation updates.

amforth 2.7 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the AVR ATmega microcontroller family.

This release includes: a new assembler, packaging changes, bug fixes, and other changes.

VFX Forth for Linux Alpha 8 has been released. VFX Forth for Linux is a 32-bit x86 Forth implementation running on Linux.

This release includes: the Linux support library, and a generic I/O device for serial ports.

amforth 2.5 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the AVR ATmega microcontroller family.

This release includes: the addition of more microcontroller-specific words, and bug fixes.

4tH 3.5c release 2 has been released. 4tH is a portable, open source Forth implementation.

This release includes: support for defining the default 4tH directory via an environment variable, support for scripting the multitasking environment, library rewrites, and other changes.

FlashForth 3.2 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the PIC18F.

This release includes: faster compilation, support for writing interrupt routines in Forth or assembler, better MPLAB integration, and other changes.

SP-Forth 4.19 has been released. SP-Forth is an ANS Forth implementation for Windows.

This release includes: optimizer improvements, updates to the assembler, exception handling enhancements, library improvements, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.