PLNews: Programming Language News

amforth 2.2 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the AVR ATmega microcontroller family.

This release includes: new leave and ?do words, and other changes.

Cat to C++ Translator 0.2 has been released. Cat is a functional, stack-based programming language.

eTcl 1.0-rc20 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: support for extended dash patterns and offsets for lines and arcs on Win32 and WinCE, an update of the Tkhtml3 sources, a cleanup of the console code, and bug fixes.

Qore 0.6.2 has been released. Qore is a weakly-typed, multithreaded scripting language offering procedural and object-oriented capabilities, and SQL integration.

This release includes: database drivers for PostgreSQL, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server; performance improvements; the addition of deadlock detection; safe signal handling; plus other changes and bug fixes.

It has been announced that the next PyGTA meeting will be held on June 19, 2007.

It has been announced that the next Front Range Pythoneers meeting will be held on June 20, 2007. "The Front Range Pythoneers is an active Python users group in Boulder, Colorado, USA."

Fawlty Language 0.70 has been released. FL is an array-oriented language, with a syntax almost identical to that of the Interactive Data Language.

This release includes: the introduction of Distributed FL, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that registration is now open for the 23rd International Conference on Logic Programming.

The conference will be held from September 8 to 13, 2007, in Porto, Portugal.

The Astoria Seminar presents Extraordinary C++ has been announced. "For the experienced C++ programmer reaching beyond the ordinary, the Astoria Seminar brings you five of the industry's top experts in a program that uncovers new pathways to C++ excellence." The speakers are Scott Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu, Dave Abrahams, Eric Niebler, and Walter Bright.

It will be held from September 23 to 26, 2007, in Astoria, Oregon. Registration is limited to 55 attendees.

Erlang/OTP R11B-5 has been released. Erlang is a general-purpose language, offering support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

This release includes: the distribution of most platform-independent build results pre-built, the inclusion of the DocBuilder application, documentation fixes, plus other changes and bug fixes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on June 19, 2007.

It has been announced that the R^5.94RS draft of the Revised⁶ Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme is now available.

Scala 2.5.1-final has been released. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional support.

This release includes: an -Xcodebase option for specifying URL-encoded libraries, and a number of bug fixes.

REALbasic 2007 Release 3 has been released. REALbasic 2007 is an object-oriented BASIC dialect and development environment, supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

This release includes: support for namespaces, plus other changes.

Logtalk 2.30.1 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: preliminary support for static binding when using imported category predicates, the addition of a new control construct allowing a goal to be proved within the context of a specific object, improved multi-threading support, and more.

Oberon Day 2007 has been announced. "The Oberon Day welcomes delegates from industry and academia who are interested in developing highest quality software in terms of reliability, safety and efficiency. Participants will get an insight into highly advanced custom systems that have emerged from the long-term collaboration of experts from science and industry. The Oberon Day is, in particular, a platform where Oberon users and developers can share their experiences."

It will be held on June 29, 2007, in Zurich, Switzerland.

Boo 0.7.8 has been released. Boo is a statically-typed, object-oriented language with a Python-inspired syntax for the .NET CLR.

This release includes: dynamic dispatching performance improvements, a friendlier DSL syntax, bug fixes, and other changes.

Sleep 2.1-beta 16 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: a new debugging mode for tracing predicate evalutions, code cleanups, support for passing hashes/arrays as named parameters to closures, plus other changes and fixes.

It has been announced that the next Seattle Python Interest Group meeting will be held on June 14, 2007.

It has been announced that the next pyCologne meeting will be held on June 13, 2007.