PLNews: Programming Language News

newLISP 9.2.0 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: the new Java-based GUI server, UNIX local domain socket support, new 'global?' and 'protected?' functions, better random number generation, a new crypto.lsp module, bug fixes, and other changes.

Arena 0.9.11 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax and core, also offering automated memory management, runtime polymorphism, exceptions, and anonymous functions.

This release includes: support for retrieving the original function name from a function value.

Gambas 1.9.50 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: improvements to the gb.gtk module, new examples, database driver fixes, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Ctpp 1.0.10 has been released. It is a preprocessor for Ctalk, an object-oriented extension of C.

This release includes: the addition of the -Wunused-macros command line option.

NYH High Order Calculator 9.1.2 has been released. It is "an interpreted language for floating-point calculations."

It has been announced that the next London Ruby User Group meeting will be held on August 13, 2007.

It has been announced that the next Phoenix Ruby User Group meeting will be held on August 13, 2007.

It has been announced that the next Boston Ruby Group meeting will be held on August 14, 2007.

Compyler 0.1 has been released. It is an x86 native code compiler for Python.

It has been announced that the next Leipzig Python User Group meeting will be held on August 14, 2007.

It has been announced that the next Lisp NYC meeting will be held on August 14, 2007. Perry Metzger will be discussing Otter.

Squirrel 2.1.2 Stable has been released. Squirrel is a lightweight, embeddable language with a C-like syntax which offers higher-order functions, delegation, tail recursion, generators, exception handling, automated memory management, and more.

This release includes: changes to the behaviour of generator iteration using foreach, new functions and methods, and bug fixes.

Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.6.7 has been released. AMPC is a C compiler that emits Java bytecode.

This release includes: a fix for a bug in the atod() function, and updates to the manual.

newLISP 9.1.12 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: support for executing remote programs from the command line, and an extra flag for 'join' to force a joint string after the last element.

Ctpp 1.0.9 has been released. It is a preprocessor for Ctalk, an object-oriented extension of C.

This release includes: faster macro storage and retrieval, and support for adding library search paths using environment variables.

It has been announced that Dolphin Smalltalk has been discontinued.

XRuby 0.3.0 has been released. XRuby compiles Ruby source code to Java bytecode.

This release includes: the use of code generation and annotation to bind Java-level methods to Ruby-level methods, and the passing of more unit tests.

NullLogic Embedded Scripting Language 0.8.0 has been released. Nesla is an embeddable scripting language with a PHP-like syntax.

This release includes: support for declaring functions inside a statement, support for building all extension libraries as shared objects, faster expression evaluation, new core library functions, bug fixes, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-08-07 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: improved handling of local functions, the renaming of the 'option' function to 'configValue', and other changes.

Kit's JavaScript Brainfuck Interpreter 0.01 has been released. It is a Brainfuck interpreter implemented in JavaScript.