PLNews: Programming Language News

It has been announced that the next Seattle Perl Users Group meeting will be held on April 21, 2009.

Perl 5.8.9 has been released. Perl is a cross-platform, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

This release includes: an update of the Unicode Character Database to 5.1.0, support for source filters in @INC, improved internal UTF-8 caching, Configure support for creating a perl tree that is relocatable at runtime, new internal variables, support for overriding the readpipe built-in function, simple exception handling macros, support for several new platforms, new and updated modules, the new perlthanks utility, new and updated documentation, performance improvements, bug fixes, new tests, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Seattle Perl Users Group meeting will be held on December 16, 2008.

Parrot 0.8.1 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: the removal of the pseudo PIR opcode 'addr', the addition of the 'box' opcode, the use of .tailcall instead of .return for tailcalls, improved debugging support, the JIT compilation of NCI signatures on x86-32, updates to the Perl 6 and Ruby language implementations, documentation updates, improvements to the OpenGL bindings, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on November 18, 2008. Gryphon Shafer will be discussing the building of a mod_perl-based MVC framework.

Parrot 0.8.0 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: the expansion of float precision from 6 significant digits to 15, the auto-promotion of large integers in PIR to avoid precision loss, improved precision of complex square root, support for exception handlers registering the types of exceptions they catch, updates to the Cardinal implementation of Ruby, updates to the Rakudo implementation of Perl 6, new and updated examples, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

Parrot 0.7.1 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: preliminary support for resumable exceptions, updates to the Rakudo (Perl 6) and Cardinal (Ruby) language implementations, documentation updates and cleanups, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on June 17.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on May 20, 2008. Dan Sabath will be speaking about the WhitePages.com public search API.

It has been announced that the next Seattle Perl Users Group meeting will be held on April 15, 2008.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on March 18, 2008.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on February 19, 2008.

Parrot 0.5.2 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: a LOLCODE language implementation, the new pbc_to_exe utility for turning bytecode into executables, 'make perl6' for building a Perl 6 executable, documentation updates, faster UTF-8 string handling, bug fixes, and other changes.

Perl 5.10.0 has been released. Perl is a cross-platform, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

This release includes: the new smart match operator, capturing matches based on names, a switch statement, state variables, a defined-or operator, improved error messages, a smaller and faster interpreter, UTF-8 improvements, threading improvements, and other changes.

ActivePerl 5.8.8.822 has been released. ActivePerl is a Perl distribution supporting Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.

This release includes: updates and fixes from the core Perl repository, and updates to the bundled modules.

It has been announced that the next Seattle Perl Users Group meeting will be held on August 21, 2007.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on June 19, 2007.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on April 17, 2007.

It has been announced that Hackathon Toronto will be held on April 28, 2007. It will be a "one-day, face-to-face, collective hacking session focused on Perl, Parrot and related open source programming projects.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on February 20, 2007.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the San Diego Perl Mongers will be held on February 12, 2007.

The European Perl Hackathon 2007 has been announced. It will be held from March 2 to 4, 2007, in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

The Nordic Perl Workshop 2007 has been announced. The Nordic Perl Workshop is a "yearly event aimed at giving some focus on Perl and Perl use in the nordic countries.

The workshop will be held on April 28 and 29, 2007, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The 2007 Yet Another Perl Conference North America has put out a call for participation.

The abstract submission deadline is April 9, 2007. The conference will be held in Houston, Texas, from June 25 to 27, 2007.

It has been announced that the next Geneva.pm meeting will be held on January 23, 2007. Eriam Schaffter and Sam Carmalt will be presenting about Perl Object Environment.