PLNews: Programming Language News

Amber for Parrot 0.4.2 has been released. It is a scripting language drawing from Eiffel and Ruby, and targeting the Parrot virtual machine.

This release includes support for the detection and handling of argument count mismatches, plus other changes and fixes.

It has been announced that the inaugural meeting of the Dallas Ruby Brigade will be held on March 7, 2006.

The February 27, 2006 edition of the Python-URL! is now available. It lists recent developments in the Python world.

This edition covers topics such as: Steve Holden's PyCon reports, the upcoming beta release of the updated official Python site, plus more.

Zsh 4.3.1 has been released. Zsh is a UNIX shell and scripting language, drawing from bash, ksh, and tcsh, in addition to adding original features.

This release includes: initial support for multibyte characters in the shell's line editor, enhancements to the shell syntax and supplied functions, plus other changes and fixes.

Frink 2006-02-23 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes Java Web Start-related changes, and the array method removeValue returns a boolean value indicating whether the value was found.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 0.9.10 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: support for bundling the runtime and the core file into an executable binary, garbage collector changes on the PowerPC platform, a larger dynamic heap on the Linux/PPC platform, plus bugfixes and other changes.

The February 27, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the revival of the Edison data structres library, recent Haskell' news, and more.

RetroForth 9.0.2 has been released. RetroForth is a free, portable Forth implementation.

This release includes a fix for a bug that causes the Windows version to crash when saving a blockfile.

dfsch 0.2.0-pre1 has been released. It is an embeddable interpreter for a subset of Scheme.

This release includes: new and improved datatypes, new functions, a new way of handling exceptions, plus other changes.

F# 1.1.10.2 has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This release includes: a prototype version of F# Interactive; unified, first-class, composable events; quotation processing over raw quoted expressions; improved code generation; Unicode-related fixes; plus other changes and bugfixes.

Perl for z/OS 1.0.0 has been released. It is a statically-linked, precompiled port of Perl 5.8.7 to IBM z/OS UNIX. This new port offers "a version of Perl with all known defects resolved and a dedicated support team to address new problems that may arise.

The 2006 Workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming has put out a call for papers.

The workshop will be held on July 2, 2006, in Kuressaare, Estonia. Submissions are due by April 10, 2006.

The 2006 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security has put out a final call for papers. The workshop aims to "provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange and understand ideas and to seed new collaboration on the use of programming language and program analysis techniques that improve the security of software systems.

It will be held on June 10, 2006, in Ottawa, Canada. Submissions are due by March 3, 2006.

A reminder has been put out that the submission deadline for the useR! 2006 conference is February 28, 2006. The conference aims to bring together users of R, a "language and environment for statistical computing and graphics".

The conference will be held from June 15 to 17, 2006, in Vienna, Austria.

SWI-Prolog 5.6.6 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a small, open-source Prolog environment.

This release includes: a fix for a build issue on Mac OS X, a more sensible argument stack limit, plus other changes and fixes.

It has been announced that registration is now open for the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference. The conference will be held on April 22 and 23, 2006.

GNU Compiler Collection 4.1 RC2 has been released.

Testing and bug reporting is requested. The final release is planned for early next week.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Toronto Ruby User Group will be held on March 5, 2006.

The February 22, 2006 edition of the Tcl-URL! is now available. It lists recent developments in the Tcl world.

This edition covers topics such as: the new Tcl Scripting website, converting shell scripts to Tcl, and more.

eTcl 8.4.12-pl9 has been released. eTcl is a standalone, single-executable distribution of Tcl, supporting a number of platforms and including several popular extensions.

This release includes: a new implementation of the embedded virtual filesystem, localization improvements, support for tap & hold, an API for programming hotkeys, 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.

Hecl 20060220 has been released. Hecl is a high-level scripting language, implemented in Java.

This release fixes some small bugs, in addition to other improvements.

Reva 6.0.1 has been released. Reva is a Forth implementation, supporting Windows and Linux.

This development release includes: new string/iconv, string/unicode, util/case, and util/locals libraries; the removal of the +loop word; various new words; plus other changes.

Qu 1.21 has been released. Qu is a general-purpose, object-oriented language, also offering closures, generators, coroutines, currying, variable arguments, and more.

This release includes: better error reporting, new standard modules, function/method tags, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Parrot 0.4.2 "GPW" has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: improved x86 and PPC just-in-time compilation support, better tracing and debugging features, support for named arguments and parameters, plus other changes and bugfixes.