PLNews: Programming Language News

newLISP 9.1.6 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes minor fixes and changes.

AngloHaskell 2007 has been announced. The date and venue have yet to be decided.

Robert Pickering has announced that his 'Foundations of F#' book will soon be available. Its first printing run will finish on May 25, 2007.

F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

Nils M Holm has announced that the second edition of his Sketchy LISP: An Introduction to Functional Programming in Scheme textbook is now available.

This edition includes: two new sections covering macros and quasi quotation, a quick reference, corrections, and other changes.

haXe 1.13 has been released. haXe is a high-level, object-oriented language for developing Web sites and Web applications.

This release includes: Flash fullscreen support, the addition of a UTF8 buffer API, plus other changes and bug fixes.

4tH 3.5b has been released. 4tH is a portable, open source Forth implementation.

This release includes: support for flushing output buffers, an experimental multitasking environment, support for more words, and other changes.

Objective Caml 3.10.0 has been released. Objective Caml is a statically typed, strictly evaluated descendant of ML, offering object-oriented, functional and imperative features.

This release includes: support for virtual instance variables in classes, the printing of stack backtraces on uncaught exceptions in native-code programs, a partial reimplementation of the Camlp4 preprocessor, the experimental 'ocamlbuild' compilation manager, a 64-bit Mac OS X PPC port, and other changes.

Gambas 1.9.49 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: compiler speed optimizations, interpreter optimizations, development environment improvements, plus other changes and bug fixes.

High Level Assembly 1.96 has been released. HLA adds high-level language syntax and constructs to x86 assembly.

This release includes bug fixes.

Frink 2007-05-17 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: support for allowing patterns to match arbitrary functions, a new symbolic mode, an experimental standalone Windows executable, new options for formatting numerical values, and other changes.

Parrot 0.4.12 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: improvements to the configuration system; updates to the abc, PHP, Lua and Tcl implementations; garbage collector and memory management improvements; better support for non-GCC compilers; improved C++ compiler compatibility; and other changes.

GNU Compiler Collection 4.2.0 has been released. GCC is a portable compiler system including front-ends for C, C++, Java, Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran and Ada, and supporting a variety of target platforms.

This release includes: OpenMP support for the C, C++ and Fortran compilers; new -fstrict-overflow, -Wstrict-overflow, and -fno-toplevel-reorder command line options; additional warnings; an overhaul of the C++ visibility handling; the removal of several deprecated C++ operators; the removal of several deprected command line options; support for the Fortran 2003 streaming IO extension; Java language support for the 32-bit HP-UX 11 target; documentation improvements; build system improvements; plus other changes and bug fixes.

The May 8 to 15, 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 release of Felix 1.1.3, using camlp4 and streams, the OCaml Development Tools (ODT) plugins for Eclipse, and more.

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

This release includes: improvements to the ASP.NET 2.0 implementation, runtime support for HandleRef, initial support for C# 3.0, support for Solaris/AMD64, bug fixes, and other changes.

XRuby 0.2.0 has been released. XRuby compiles Ruby source code to Java bytecode.

This release includes: progress on the ANTLR v3-based parser, improved testing, the addition of builtin methods, plus other changes and fixes.

XLOGO 0.9.24 has been released. XLOGO is a Logo interpreter.

This release includes new primitives, and bug fixes.

Virgil B-03 has been released. "Virgil is an new, light-weight object-oriented programming language that is designed for building software for resource-constrained embedded systems at the lowest level."

This release includes: compiler bug fixes, more uniform semantics on AVR systems, improved space optimizations, preliminary support for parametric types, a new tutorial, new examples, plus other changes.

It has been announced that R^5.93RS, the next draft of the Revised⁶ Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, will be delayed until May 22, 2007.

liskell.org, the new website of the Liskell programming language, has been announced. Liskell combines the syntax of Lisp with the semantics of Haskell.

High Level Assembly v1.95 has been released. HLA adds high-level language syntax and constructs to x86 assembly.

This release includes fixes.