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Seed7 2008-11-16 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: improved support for Borland C++, documentation updates, the removal of the obsolete << and >> operators for file I/O, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-11-02 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: a new gzip.s7i library, new and renamed functions in the scanfile.s7i and scanstri.s7i libraries, improved stacktraces for uncaught exceptions, documentation updates, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-10-19 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: updated examples, compiler support for several new config values, support for reading directories, documentation updates, updated makefiles, improved support for the keypad cursor keys, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-10-05 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 improvements, updated example programs, the renaming of the bigULConv and bigLOrd functions to bigFromUInt64 and bigToInt64, updated makefiles, improved compiler support for local interface declarations and dynamic functions referring to constant values, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-09-21 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, improvements to the bas7.sd7 example program, num-lock support for the X11 keyboard driver, the renaming of some primitive actions, new functions in the progs.s7i library, the renaming of the is_var function to isVar, and other changes.

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.

Seed7 2008-08-17 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, toUuencoded and fromUuencded functions in the encoding.s7i library, updated makefiles, bug fixes, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-08-03 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: the renaming of the charsets.s7i library to chartype.s7i, a new charsets.s7i library, the addition of the encoding.s7i library, new library functions, improved code generation, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-07-20 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: a subrange type for the integer, char and enumeration types; documentation updates; updated example programs; bug fixes; and other changes.

Seed7 2008-07-07 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, example program improvements, the renaming of some primitive actions and functions, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-06-22 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: new example programs and test cases, compiler support for optionally generating code without range checks, improved handling of functions returning references to existing objects, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-06-08 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: the cgi.s7i library for writing CGI scripts, a new example program simulating a lunar landing, bug fixes, documentation updates, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-05-25 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: new manual chapters, build improvements, new skipLine and getLine functions in the scanfile.s7i library, = and <> functions in the complex.s7i library, 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.

Seed7 2008-04-20 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 improvements, gcd and modInverse functions for the bigint.s7i library, memory leak fixes, new example programs, bug fixes, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-04-06 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: support for bitLength, lowestSetBit, <<, <<:=, >> and >>:= for the integer and bigInteger types; a change in the priority of the << and >> operators; documentation updates; a new constructor for complex numbers from a float; updates to the BASIC interpreter example program; bug fixes; and other changes.

Sleep 2.1-beta 21 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: a ? command to evaluate predicates in the Sleep console, &skip and &consume refer to the same function; the addition of &readAsObject and &writeAsObject to read and write serialized Java objects; changes to the semantics of fork; bug fixes; and other changes.

Seed7 2008-03-19 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: the addition of functions to the scanstri.s7i library, improved support for the itf_eq and itf_ne primitive actions, improved handling of bitsets with negative elements, improvements to the BASIC interpreter example program, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-03-02 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; the addition of skipComment, getComment, skipLineComment, getLineComment and getNumber functions to the scanstri.s7i library; memory leak fixes; bug fixes; and other changes.

Seed7 2008-02-17 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 improvements, new primitive actions, an update to the bas7.sd7 example program, bug fixes, and other changes.