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It has been announced that the next meeting of the Vancouver Lisp Users Group will be held on October 30, 2007.

Don Syme has announced that his book Expert C#, written along with Adam Granicz and Antonio Cisternino, is expected to be available by November 30, 2007. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.11 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: a semaphore interface exported by the SB-THREAD package, CONS stack allocation on x86 and x86-64, support for stack-allocating nested lists, bug fixes, and other changes.

The October 25, 2007 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarizes recent developments within the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: recent Haskell-related software releases, Haskell papers presented at conferences, Haskell-related blog posts, and more.

Boo 0.8 has been released. Boo is a statically-typed, object-oriented language with a Python-inspired syntax for the .NET CLR.

This release includes: improved meta-programming capabilities, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

Seed7 2007-10-25 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: a new example program, compiler and interpreter improvements, and other changes.

Sleep 2.1-b19 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: callcc support, support for inline functions, improved fault tolerance, and other changes.

The Visual Basic Language Specification 9.0 (Beta 2) document is now available. "The Visual Basic Language Specification provides a complete description of the Visual Basic language 9.0."

Qore 0.6.2.2 has been released. Qore is a weakly-typed, multithreaded scripting language offering procedural and object-oriented capabilities, and SQL integration.

This release includes: a decode_url() function, a number of bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the London Ruby User Group will be held on November 12, 2007.

SWI-Prolog 5.6.45 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: thread synchronization-related changes, the max_size property for message queues, and bug fixes.

The October 16 to 23, 2007 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Caml community.

This edition covers: the availability of pa_oo, pa_polymap and Sexplib for OCaml 3.10.

Ctpp 1.0.19 has been released. It is a C99-compliant preprocessor for Ctalk, an object-oriented extension of C.

This release includes: a better method of locating GCC include files, and other changes.

Cat 0.18.0 has been released. Cat is a functional, stack-based programming language inspired by Joy.

This release includes: the addition of more tests, and bug fixes.

Logtalk 2.30.6 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: improved multithreading support, improved Unicode support, the renaming of several compiler options for clarity, and other changes.

It has been announced that the slides from the Erlang Workshop 2007 talks are now available online.

The 2008 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming has put out a call for workshop proposals. "ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming."

The submission deadline is November 21, 2007. The conference will be held from September 22 to 24, 2008, in Victoria, BC, Canada.

It has been announced that a Smalltalk gathering will be held on November 17, 2007, in Bern, Switzerland.

Ctalk 0.0.14a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: performance improvements, templates to handle objects within array subscripts, system exception handling for ReadFileSystem objects, bug fixes, and other changes.

jserl has been announced. It is an ActionScript (ECMAScript 4) compiler that emits Erlang code.