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eTcl 1.0-rc19 has been released. eTcl is a standalone, single-executable distribution of Tcl, supporting a number of platforms and including several popular extensions.

This release is based around Tcl/Tk 8.4.15, and includes: a backport of the extended 'clock' command from Tcl 8.5, bug fixes, and other changes.

Free Pascal 2.1.4 has been released. Free Pascal is a portable, open source Pascal and Object Pascal compiler.

This release includes: 64-bit PowerPC code generation support; support for Win64, WinCE, GBA, DS and Intel Mac OS X target platforms; an internal linker for the Windows targets; generics; bit-packed arrays; interface delegation; DWARF debugging support; optimizer improvements; and other changes.

AspeCt-oriented C V 0.6 has been released. ACC, formerly known as AspectC, allows for aspect-oriented development using C.

This release includes: support for allowing advice functions to return immediately from the function containing the matched join point, support for the addition of exception handling via aspects, a new set of compiler tools, and other changes.

It has been announced that the May 2007 edition of the Haskell Communities and Activities Report is now available. The HC&A is a semiannual overview of the state of Haskell, the Haskell community and Haskell-related projects.

S-Lang 2.1.0 has been released. S-Lang is an embeddable, interpreted language.

This release includes: support for short-circuiting boolean operators, support for embedded assignment expressions within structure definitions, new 'ifnot' and 'then' keywords, several new intrinsic functions, new iconv and onig modules, plus other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Omaha Dynamic Language User Group will be held on June 5, 2007. Ryan Stille will be discussing ColdFusion.

It has been announced that the next social meeting of the Sydney Python Users Group will be held on June 7, 2007.

Logtalk 2.30.0 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: preliminary support for static binding, improved Prolog integration, revamped multi-threading support, enhanced debugging support, plus other changes.

JazzScheme 1.0b6 has been released. JazzScheme is a multi-paradigm, Scheme-based programming language.

This release includes: IDE improvements, compiler bug fixes, and other changes.

PHP Logo Interpreter 0.1 has been released. It is a Logo interpreter implemented in PHP.

MirBSD Korn Shell R29f has been released. It is a portable shell derived from pdksh, with an emphasis on scripting.

This release includes: improvements to the user configuration sample file, and bug fixes.

The newLISP Fan Club Wiki has been announced. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

GNU Smalltalk 2.3.4 has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: test suite improvements, zlib bindings, plus other changes and several bug fixes.

Excelsior JET 5.0 has been released. Excelsior JET is a certified Java SE 5.0 ahead-of-time compiler system.

This release includes: the Java Runtime Slim-Down deployment model, performance improvements, faster JIT compilation, plus other changes.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.6 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: an experimental code coverage tool, optimizations, an experimental synchronous timeout facility, bug fixes, and other changes.

Gambas 1.0.18 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes a variety of bug fixes.

Piffle has been announced. It is a language for writing network packet filters, with a compiler implemented in Haskell.

Peter Seibel has announced that there will be a third printing of his Practical Common Lisp book.

It has been announced that the next Haskell in Leipzig meeting will be held on July 10, 2007.

It has been announced that the next SeaFunc meeting will be held on May 29, 2007. SeaFunc is a group for people in the Seattle area who are interested in functional programming and other advanced programming language paradigms.