PLNews: Programming Language News

StrongForth 1.2 has been released. It is a statically-typed Forth-like language, with an implementation for DOS.

This release includes: file access and memory allocation wordsets, the new ancestor data type TUPLE, and other changes.

The April 17 to 24, 2007 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as: the announcement of The F#.NET Journal, saving the state of the OCaml interpreter, functor performance, multiprocessor support in OCaml, and more.

ooRexx 3.1.2 has been released. ooRexx is a portable, open-source REXX implementation based on IBM Object REXX.

This release includes: support for Windows Vista, the addition of new methods to the MutableBuffer and String classes, the addition of the instanceOf method to class Object, OLE-related improvements, documentation improvements, and other changes.

Felix 1.1.3 Release Candidate 4 has been released. Felix is an Algol-like procedural language with an embedded functional subsystem, offering ML-style static typing, first class functions, pattern matching, and more.

Testing of this release candidate is requested.

IKVM.NET 0.34 rc1 has been released. IKVM.NET is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes the integration of GNU Classpath 0.95, and bug fixes.

RetroForth 9.3 has been released. RetroForth is a free, portable Forth implementation.

This release includes: FFI and system call interfaces; a single codebase for Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD and some versions of OpenBSD; and other changes.

Tcl 8.5a6 rc1 has been released. Tcl is a dynamic, cross-platform scripting language.

Testing of this release candidate is requested.

F-Script 1.3.5 release candidate has been released. F-Script is an embeddable scripting language based on Smalltalk for Mac OS X, providing access to Cocoa and other Objective-C objects.

Testing of this release candidate is requested.

Mono 1.2.4 Preview has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

Zsh 4.3.4 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 bug fixes.

The 2008 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages has put out a call for papers. "The annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of programming languages and systems, with emphasis on how principles underpin practice. Both theoretical and experimental papers are welcome, on topics ranging from formal frameworks to experience reports."

Submissions are due by July 16, 2007. The symposium will be held from January 10 to 12, 2008, in San Francisco, USA.

Digital Mars D 1.013 has been released. 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.

This release includes a number of bug fixes.

Python 2.5.1 FINAL has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release includes bug fixes.

Gauche 0.8.10 has been released. Gauche is an R5RS Scheme implementation.

This release includes: stricter keyword argument checking, support for remote process execution, support for 16-bit floating point numbers, inexact arithmetic operations, and other changes.

NullLogic Embedded Scripting Language 0.4.0 has been released. Nesla is an embeddable scripting language with a PHP-like syntax.

This release includes: the addition of file.read() and file.write() functions, operator precedence, support for returning tables from functions, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Seed7 2007-04-19 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 compiler support for result variables, library improvements, new test cases, performance improvements, and other changes.

newLISP 9.1.4 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: support for local domain UNIX sockets, 'net-ping' improvements, enhancements to the MySQL module, plus other changes and bug fixes.

VA Smalltalk 7.5.1 has been released. VA Smalltalk is a multi-platform, VisualAge Smalltalk-compatible Smalltalk implementation.

This release includes: the consolidation of EtToolsVendorExtensionsApp and VisualAgeVendorExtensionsApp, quick form support for DateAndTime, plus other changes and a number of bug fixes.

IronPython 1.1 has been released. IronPython is an implementation of Python running on .NET.

This release includes: new array, SHA, MD5, and select modules; support for XML Doc comments within the help system and __doc__ tags, support for loading cached pre-compiled modules, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Parrot 0.4.11 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: updates to the Lua, PHP, BASIC and pynie language implementations, documentation improvements, improved Solaris support, plus other changes and bug fixes.