PLNews: Programming Language News

newLISP 8.9.14 has been released. newLISP is a general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: speed and memory usage improvements for 'apply', error checking on all memory reallocations, plus other changes.

A call for articles has been put out for the COBOL User Groups newsletters.

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Dynace 6.00 has been released. Dynace is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: improved compiler support, new classes, and other changes.

Cat 0.7 has been released. Cat is a stack-based compositional language, inspired by Joy.

Logtalk 2.28.0 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: experimental support for multithreaded programming, improved support for defining meta-predicates, better integration with several Prolog compilers, plus other changes and bugfixes.

It has been announced that the next SeaFunc meeting will be held on October 3, 2006. SeaFunc is a group for people in the Seattle area who are interested in functional programming and other advanced programming language paradigms.

The September 27, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the use of Haskell at this year's ICFP programming contest, the Sept. 2006 release of Hugs, recent Haskell' developments, Haskell-related talks at the Commercial Users of Functional Programming workshop, and more.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 0.9.17 has been released. SBCL is a portable ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: support for weak hash tables, improvements to the Win32 port, plus various changes and bugfixes.

The September 19 to 26, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion in the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as the finding of module dependencies of bytecode executables, and the BrainScan source code model checker for Brainfuck.

Qore 0.5.2 has been released. Qore is a weakly-typed, multithreaded scripting language offering procedural and object-oriented capabilities, and SQL integration.

This release includes: 64-bit build support on x86_64 platforms, strong encryption and message digest support, improved date and time handling, enhancements to the MySQL and Oracle drivers, plus other changes and bugfixes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Michigan Python Users Group will be held on October 3, 2006.

Aurora Beta 1 Rev 1 has been released. Aurora is an object-oriented language with a C++-like syntax.

This release includes: an enum keyword for creating enumerations, support for class method and member variable access specifiers, parser bugfixes, new classes, and other changes.

Windows PowerShell RC2 has been released. Windows PowerShell, formerly known as Monad, is a new command line shell that includes "a scripting language which enables comprehensive automation of Windows system administration tasks."

This release includes: XOR and binary XOR operators, improved help content and functionality, improved support for Windows Management Instrumentation, plus other changes.

REDLisp 0.50h has been released. REDLisp is an interpreter for a new dialect of Lisp.

This release includes the addition of an assoc function, fixes, and other changes.

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.

Gambit-C 4.0 beta 19 has been released. Gambit-C includes a Scheme interpreter, and a Scheme compiler that emits portable C code.

This release includes: the removal of C++-style comments from the runtime system; changes for ARM support; the implementation of the "finite?", "infinite?" and "nan?" predefined procedures; plus other changes and fixes.

The Silicon Valley Forth Interest Group has announced Forth Day 2006. It will be held on November 18, 2006, in Sunnyvale, California.

XOTcl 1.5.1 has been released. XOTcl is an object-oriented scripting language based on OTcl and Tcl.

This release includes: improved support for developing XOTcl methods in C, dispatcher speed improvements, better 64-bit compatibility on POWER5+, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Frink 2006-09-25 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 the addition of an array.shallowCopy[] method, and a sample periodic table of the elements.

A summary of discussion taking place on the Perl 6 mailing lists between September 17 and 23, 2006 is now available.

Hugs 98 September 2006 has been released. Hugs 98 is a Haskell 98 implementation.

This release includes: a decrease in the verbosity of the built-in printer, updated libraries, and bugfixes.

Reva 6.0.12 has been released. Reva is a Forth implementation running on Windows and Linux.

This release includes: new and removed words, library fixes, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Pascal Costanza has announced that the Common Lisp Document Repository has finalized the CDR 0: Common Lisp Document Repository and CDR 1: The CLOS Metaobject Protocol documents. The CDR is "a repository of documents that are of interest to the Common Lisp community. The most important property of a CDR document is that it will never change: if you refer to it, you can be sure that your reference will always refer to exactly the same document.

The CDR Blog has also been set up, and will carry CDR-related announcements.

B-Prolog 6.9 has been released. It is "an efficient implementation of Prolog with extensions including CLP(FD), tabling, and action rules.

This release includes: a new memory manager, action rule language support for conjunctive and disjunctive channels, improved ISO compliance, plus other changes and fixes.

Gambas 1.9.43 has been released. Gambas is a BASIC implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: development environment improvements, compiler and interpreter bugfixes, component updates, plus other changes and bugfixes.