PLNews: Programming Language News

IronPython 2.0 Alpha 2 has been released. IronPython is an implementation of Python running on .NET.

This release includes: the removal of the Microsoft.Scripting.Vestigal DLL, increased usage of the Dynamic Language Runtime, and other changes.

SmartEiffel 2.3 beta 2 has been released. SmartEiffel is a portable, open source Eiffel implementation.

This release includes: a new class loading algorithm, a streamlined installer for package maintainers, the new eiffeltest tool, bug fixes, and other changes.

S-Lang 2.1.1 has been released. S-Lang is an embeddable, interpreted language.

This release includes: a 'readascii' function, the addition of inf/nan support to 'sscanf', documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

R 2.5.1 has been released. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, similar to S.

This release includes: bug fixes and other changes.

Frink 2007-06-28 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: improvements to the calling of Java methods from within Frink, and other changes.

hiccup has been announced. It is a small interpreter for a subset of Tcl.

Shed Skin 0.0.22 has been released. Shed Skin is an experimental Python compiler which emits C++ code.

This release includes: support for generating simple extension modules under Linux and Windows, improved detection of dynamic types, overloading improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

Java Orchestration Language Interpreter Engine 0.9.2 has been released. It "provides an high level programming language for service orchestration."

This release includes: the introduction of a new heuristic for improving incoming communication handling performance, performance improvements to the session execution engine, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the Modula-3 Resource Page has moved from m3.org to modula3.org.

Planet D has been announced. It is a feed aggregator drawing from D-related blogs.

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.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.7 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: changes to the spinlock interface, MOP improvements, SB-POSIX improvements, bignum printing speed optimizations, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next BeNeLux Lisp Meeting will be held on July 1, 2007, in The Hague, Netherlands.

The Complex Programming Language 0.1 has been released. It is "a simple object oriented language with some functional aspects. In a short, the list/pairs are replaced by objects. The objects have a defined behaviour, which corresponds to what should happen if they are evaluated."

This release includes an initial release of the specification, and a corresponding interpreter.

Digital Mars D 2.001 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: the addition of the D_Version2 predefined identifier, the addition of __VENDOR__ and __VERSION__ constants, the .init property for a variable being based on its type, bug fixes, and other changes.

Digital Mars D 1.017 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: the addition of __VENDOR__ and __VERSION__, the .init property for a variable being based on its type, and bug fixes.

Jython 2.2 RC1 has been released. Jython is a Python implementation written in Java.

This release candidate includes a new socket module, and bug fixes.

Seed7 2007-06-24 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: the addition of a sockets library, new example programs, the addition of the popen function, compiler improvements, improved heap management, and other changes.

eTcl 1.0-rc21 has been released. eTcl is a standalone, single-executable distribution of Tcl, supporting a number of platforms and including several popular extensions.

This release includes: the addition of an API for communicating with other eTcl instances, bug fixes, and other changes.

Logtalk 2.30.2 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: improved compiler error checking, new and revamped examples, bug fixes, and other changes.

Cat 0.15 has been released. Cat is a functional, stack-based programming language inspired by Joy.

This release includes: support for equirecursive function types, type declaration verification, lambda expressions, "new" and "invoke" functions for interfacing with .NET, full type inference, updates to the graphics library, and other changes.