PLNews: Programming Language News

Frink 2007-04-30 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 the arccosh[x] function, and fixes to the foreign language translations.

It has been announced that the first meeting of the New York Functional Programmers Network will be held on May 3, 2007.

It has been announced that the first meeting of the London Haskell User Group will be held on May 23, 2007. Simon Peyton Jones will be giving a talk.

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

F-Script 1.3.5 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.

This release includes: support for Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard", new clear and clear: methods of the System class, support for an experimental multiple assignment syntax, new math methods on numbers, plus other changes and bug fixes.

The April 27, 2007 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the release of GHC 6.6.1, recent Haskell-related software releases, Haskell' developments, and more.

It has been announced that the next Omaha Dynamic Language User Group meeting will be held on May 1, 2007.

Digital Mars D 1.014 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: support for associative array literals, support for struct literals, plus other changes and bug fixes.

The Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.6.1 has been released. GHC is a portable, open-source, optimising Haskell 98 implementation.

This release includes: support for Windows Vista, support for defining newtypes using GADT syntax, documentation improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

Chrome 1.5.9 has been released. Chrome is an Object Pascal implementation for Mono and .NET.

Sleep 2.1-beta 15 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: the addition of an assert command, a reworking of the conversion of array scalars to native Java arrays, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Pike 7.6.112 has been released.Pike is a dynamic, object-oriented language with a C-like syntax.

This release includes: updates to the timezone data files, fixed support for big endian 64-bit systems, adjustments to the array growth policy in array_insert, compatibility with the Darwin IA32 ABI, plus bug fixes and other changes.

Cat 0.11.1 has been released. Cat is a functional, stack-based programming language.

This release includes: the addition of count_while, more tests, plus other changes and a number of bug fixes.

The Amsterdam Compiler Kit 6.0pre2 has been released. ACK is an optimizing, retargetable, open source compiler suite supporting a variety of languages, including C, Pascal, Modula-2, BASIC, and Occam.

This release includes: limited support for i386 Linux binaries, syscall changes, the removal of the K&R C compiler, changes to the built-in libc, plus other changes and bug fixes.

IKVM 0.34 rc2 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release candidate includes a fix for a regression in the String.lastIndexOf() method.

NullLogic Embedded Scripting Language 0.5.0 has been released. Nesla is an embeddable scripting language with a PHP-like syntax.

This release includes: support for directly appending numbers to strings using +, support for do loops, documentation improvements, improved operator precedence resolution, plus other changes and bug fixes.

amforth 1.9 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the AVR ATmega microcontroller family.

This release includes: new words, a renaming of dict_low.asm to dict_minimal.asm, bug fixes, and other changes.

R 2.5.0 has been released. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, similar to S.

This release includes: the new Rscript front-end, allowing for shell-like scripting; the new 'codetools' package; and other changes.

The 21st Workshop on (Constraint) Logic Programming has put out a call for papers. The workshop aims to "bring together researchers interested in logic programming, constraint programming, and related areas like databases and artificial intelligence."

The submission deadline is June 8, 2007. The workshop will be held from October 4 to 6, 2007, in Würzburg, Germany.

JRuby 0.9.9 has been released. JRuby is a Ruby interpreter written in Java.

This release includes: a compatibility and performance overhaul of several classes, YAML and marshalling fixes, improved Java integration, performance improvements, and other changes.