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Logtalk 2.30.5 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: improved multithreading support, documentation updates, and other changes.

Gambas 1.9.51 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: improved translations, IDE enhancements, new examples, compiler and interpreter bug fixes, new and updated modules, plus other changes and fixes.

Parrot 0.4.16 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: Kea Common Lisp, NQP improvements, a code review on every PMC, bug fixes, and other changes.

newLISP 9.2.2 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: core bug fixes, and improvements to the newLISP-GS editor.

Wrapl 0.7 has been released. Wrapl is a high-level, embeddable, object-oriented language, also offering goal directed evaluation and multiple dispatch.

It has been announced that the next FringeDC formal meeting will be held on September 22, 2007. FringeDC is a group for people in the Washington, D.C. area who are interested in non-mainstream programming languages, including Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, Prolog and Smalltalk.

Frink 2007-09-14 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: foreign translation fixes, and the addition of functions to test the types of numeric values and to return lists of characters in a string.

Ctalk 0.0.10a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: support for preprocessor macro caching, build system updates, and bug fixes.

Carl Gundel has announced that beta testers are required for Run BASIC Personal Server. Run BASIC is a Web-based BASIC implementation built upon Liberty BASIC.

It has been announced that the October meeting of the Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group will be held on October 22, 2007.

WikiCFP has been announced. It is a site for organizing and sharing calls-for-papers, including a section on CFPs concerning programming languages.

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

This release includes: the addition of support for classes and namespaces to the @locals function, bug fixes, and other changes.

newLISP 9.2.1 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: speed improvements, plus other changes.

IKVM 0.36 rc2 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes: support for enabling and disabling assertions in ikvm.exe, support for creating proxies for non-public interfaces in ikvmc-compiled assemblies, lazy method annotation resolution, bug fixes, and other changes.

Free Pascal 2.2.0 has been released. Free Pascal is a portable, open source Pascal and Object Pascal compiler.

This release includes: 64-bit PPC support; ARM support; Intel Mac OS X support; support for interface delegation; support for bit-packed records and arrays; and other changes.

Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.6.9 has been released. AMPC is a C compiler that emits Java bytecode.

This release includes: the replacement of SWT with AWT/Swing.

Ctpp 1.0.16 has been released. It is a C99-compliant preprocessor for Ctalk, an object-oriented extension of C.

This release includes: a fix for a bug causing redefined macros to be deleted.

Scala 2.6.0-final has been released. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional support.

This release includes: the addition of a receiving actor to trait actors.OutputChannel, support for port multiplexing in remote actors, support for converting methods with '*'-parameters to function values, support for multidimensional arrays, synchronous message send for remote actors, a '@native' annotation for native methods, new methods for the scala.Array class, a number of bug fixes, and other changes.

FreeBASIC 0.18.1b has been released. FreeBASIC is an open-source BASIC compiler offering compatibility with Microsoft QuickBasic, while also adding features such as inline assembly, pointers, unsigned data types, and more.

This release includes: basic object support, procedure parameters passed by reference, a more strict default mode, bug fixes, and other changes.

Bigloo 3.0b has been released. Bigloo aims to be a practical Scheme implementation.

This release includes: improved Mac OS X support, and library bug fixes.