PLNews: Programming Language News

Asymptote 1.17 has been released. "Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax."

This release includes: the addition of a uniform histogram routine to the status module, new frequency binning routines, an updated FAQ, plus other changes and fixes.

Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.5.2 has been released. AMPC is a C compiler that emits Java bytecode.

This release includes a fix for a bug in operations involving floating point constants.

Cat 0.9.3 has been released. Cat is a stack-based compositional language, inspired by Joy.

This release includes: more tests, more list manipulation functions, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Sleep 2.1 beta 8 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: changes to the string representation of closures, support for sharing the "this" scope among closures, enhancements to &exec to allow specification of a starting directory and an environment, console updates, plus other changes and fixes.

haXe 1.08 has been released. haXe is a high-level, object-oriented language for developing Web sites and Web applications.

This release includes: a new haxe.rtti package, a rewrite of haxedoc, plus other changes and a number of bug fixes.

The October 22 to 28, 2006 edition of The Weekly Squeak Summary is now available. It is a summary of developments within the Squeak community. Squeak is a portable, open-source Smalltalk implementation and environment.

It has been announced that the next Phoenix Ruby User Group meeting will be held on November 13, 2006.

Neko 1.5 has been released. Neko is a high-level, dynamically typed intermediate language designed to offer a common runtime for different languages.

This release includes a new threading API, and bug fixes.

A summary of discussion taking place on the Perl 6 mailing lists between October 22 and 28, 2006 is now available.

It has been announced that the the next Toronto Smalltalk User Group workshop meeting will be held on November 2, 2006.

It has been announced that the EuroForth 2006 proceedings are now available online.

Gambas 1.9.45 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: IDE improvements, a new gb.web component, a Farsi translation, plus other changes and bug fixes.

KidBASIC 0.7 has been released. "KidBASIC is an easy to use version of BASIC designed to teach young children the basics of computer programming.

This release includes: internationalisation support, menu improvements, and bug fixes.

STklos 0.80 has been released. STklos is a Scheme implementation that supports most R5RS features.

This release includes: threading support, support for compiling bytecode to C, better error messages, optimizations, a number of new primitives, SRFI-18 support, and bug fixes.

Io 2006-10-25 has been released. Io is an embeddable, prototype-based language offering exceptions, lightweight threads, and more.

This release includes: new Contracts, Rational and ContinuedFraction add-ons; the addition of a ** operator; plus other changes and fixes.

Gecode 1.3.1 has been released. It is "an open, free, portable, accessible, and efficient environment for developing constraint-based systems and applications.

This release includes performance improvements and bug fixes.

A call for articles has been put out for the November 2006 issue of Jython Monthly. Jython Monthly is an online newsletter covering a variety of Jython-related topics. Jython is an implementation of Python written in Java.

Asymptote 1.16 has been released. "Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax.

This release includes: the generalization of the legend routine to allow multiple entries per line, the renaming of the truepoint function to framepoint, the addition of a 2D frequency binning routine to the stats module, plus other changes and fixes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Vancouver Ruby Brigade will be held on November 14, 2006.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the London Ruby User Group will be held on November 13, 2006.

Cat 0.9 has been released. Cat is a stack-based compositional language, inspired by Joy.

This release includes: improved testing, support for Mono 1.13.8, and other changes.

Jon Harrop, author of the book 'Objective CAML for Scientists', has announced that he is working on a new book entitled 'F# for Scientists'. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

IBM Enterprise PL/I for z/OS V3.6 has been announced (~50 KB .pdf). "Enterprise PL/I is a leading-edge, z/OS-based compiler that helps you create and maintain mission-critical, line-of-business PL/I applications you want to execute on your z/OS systems.

This release includes: DB2 V9 support, performance enhancements, quality improvements, and other changes.

Reva 6.1 has been released. Reva is a Forth implementation running on Windows and Linux.

This release includes: support for contexts, new words, more examples and libraries, a more comprehensive help system, runtime and compilation speed improvements, plus other changes and fixes.

The October 24, 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: recent Haskell-related software releases, the inclusion of the 'Yet Another Haskell Tutorial' into the Haskell wikibook, Haskell' developments, and more.