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Seed7 2006-12-04 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 support 64-bit file offsets, ord and conv functions for the bigInteger type, the addition of the = and <> comparisons for arrays, support for compilation with MinGW and MSYS, plus other changes and fixes.

Seed7 2006-11-20 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: the addition of the rand function, and the +:= and -:= operators to the bigInteger library; improved compiler support for bigInteger; documentation improvements; and other changes.

Seed7 2006-11-06 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: interpreter support for bigInteger literals, support for configurable bigdigit sizes, the addition of the mdiv function to the bigInteger library, and other changes.

Seed7 2006-10-08 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 addition of bigInteger division and remainder support.

Seed7 2006-09-26 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: enhancements to the bigInteger library, improved compiler support for bigInteger functionality, build improvements, plus other changes.

Seed7 2006-09-10 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 bigInteger support, a new example program, plus other changes.

Seed7 2006-08-08 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 addition of descriptions for the 'func', 'varfunc', and 'proc' types to the manual; the addition of the '<=', '>', and '<' operators for the 'duration' type; plus other changes.

Seed7 2006-07-24 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 a trim function to remove leading and trailing spaces from a string, a new 'bifurcation' example program, and other changes.

Seed7 2006-07-07 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: a new 'planets' example program, Unicode support for the drwText function of the Windows graphic driver, plus other changes.

Seed7 2006-06-22 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 an improved graphic driver for Windows, and a new example program.

Seed7 2006-06-06 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 example program improvements, and support for the hi interpreter to write a stack trace for uncaught exceptions.

Seed7 2006-05-20 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: interpreter performance improvements, new keyboard and graphic drivers for Windows, the definition of a new set_arrlit primitive action to create sets from integer arrays, and new example programs.

Seed7 2006/05/06 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: the improved reporting of semantic errors, simplification of the source and include file management of the interpreter, plus other changes.

Seed7 2006/04/20 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: the replacement of the driver function tim_await by timAwait, changes to the driver function timNow, a new toutf8 example program, plus other changes and fixes.

Seed7 2006/03/14 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: struct and array improvements, improvements to the bas example program, subrange and for loops for bitset, plus other changes.

Seed7 2006/02/23 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 sets and structs, new functions, support for UTF-8 characters in string and char literals, and more.

Seed7 2006/02/05 has been released. It is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release adds support for strings to the compiler, a new rand function to select a random element from a set, plus other changes.

Seed7 2006/01/26 has been released. It is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes improvements to the compiler, plus other changes.

Seed7 2006/01/18 has been released. It is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: various improvements to the Windows support, changes to the time driver interface, and a keyboard test program.

Thomas Mertes has announced the Seed7 programming language. It is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

An open-source interpreter is available, with a compiler in the works. The interpreter currently supports UNIX-like systems, but a Windows version is under development.