PLNews: Programming Language News

The haXe Forum has been announced. It is a set of online forums focusing on haXe, a high-level, object-oriented language for developing Web sites and Web applications.

The Fortran Wiki has been announced. It is "an open venue for discussing all aspects of the Fortran programming language and scientific computing."

l1sp.org has been announced. It is "a redirect service for Common Lisp documentation."

Planet Vancouver.rb has been announced. It is a aggregator drawing together Ruby-related information pertaining to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

LispForum has been announced. It is a website with discussion forums dedicated to various Lisp-related topics.

The Scala Language Center website has been announced. It contains articles, documentation and other information relating to Scala. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional support.

The new tinypy website at tinypy.org has been announced. tinypy is a small implementation of a subset of Python.

It has been announced that Planet D has moved to http://planet.dsource.org. It is a feed aggregator drawing from D-related blogs.

It has been announced that the new REBOL 3 homepage is now accessible. REBOL is a dynamic, multi-paradigm language, with emphasis placed on networked and distributed computing.

OCamlcore Planet has been announced. It is a feed aggregator, collecting OCaml-related news and blog postings.

It has been announced that cobra-language.com is the new domain of the Cobra project. Cobra is a high-level language for .NET, including features such as generics, contracts, compile-time type inference, exception handling, garbage collection, and more.

LuaNews has been announced. It is a "summary of the latest happenings on the Lua mail list and elsewhere in the Lua world." Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

Scala-Blogs.org has been announced. It is a collection of blog posts pertaining to Scala. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional support.

It has been announced that the Standard Pascal web site has moved to standardpascal.org. The site contains "various information about the standard versions of Pascal as stated by the ISO and ANSI organizations.

WikiCFP has been announced. It is a site for organizing and sharing calls-for-papers, including a section on CFPs concerning programming languages.

It has been announced that the Modula-3 Resource Page has moved from m3.org to modula3.org.

Planet D has been announced. It is a feed aggregator drawing from D-related blogs.

D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

liskell.org, the new website of the Liskell programming language, has been announced. Liskell combines the syntax of Lisp with the semantics of Haskell.

Smalltalk Central has been announced. "Smalltalk Central provides a starting point for finding Smalltalk content, news, and links, from beginner tutorials to articles for expert developers.

The availability of the list of programming languages indexed by the Programming Language Research Engine has been announced. PLRE is "a custom search engine created using the Google co-op service for searching primarily academic sites related to programming language theory, design, and implementation.

It has been announced that the YAPC::Europe 2007 website has been launched.

The conference will be held from August 29 to 31, 2007 in Vienna, Austria. The speakers include Larry Wall, Damian Conway, and Audrey Tang.

Jon Harrop has announced the creation of his F# News blog. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

Christopher Diggins has announced the Programming Language Research Engine. It is a search engine for doing research on programming languages, built upon Google Co-op.

It has an emphasis on programming language theory, but searches the home pages of over 50 programming languages as well as many online textbooks, and citeseer.

Joe Armstrong, one of the original creators of Erlang, has announced that he has started a blog mainly focusing on Erlang.

Don Schwarz has announced the creation of jvm-languages.com. It aims to be "a community-run site dedicated to the promotion and advancement of projects that integrate Java with other programming languages. This includes projects that compile scripting or domain-specific languages into Java bytecode, interpreters written in Java, and bridges between the Java VM and other languages.

He has also announced the online availability of his 'Dynamic Languages and Java' book. It is only partially complete, but is available under a Creative Commons license.