PLNews: Programming Language News

Wraith Scheme 1.30 has been released. It is an R5RS Scheme implementation for the Mac.

This release includes enhancements for parallel processing.

Scala 2.6.1-RC1 has been released. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional support.

This release includes a number of bug fixes.

Digital Mars D 2.008 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 include: standard library enhancements; new std.algorithm, std.typecons, std.functional and std.numeric modules; the addition of const/invariant structs, classes and interfaces; the addition of the typeof(return) type specifier; changes to the way coverage analysis is done; bug fixes; and other changes.

Digital Mars D 1.024 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: changes to the way coverage analysis is done, and several bug fixes.

Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler 1.5.0-pre3 has been released. It is a portable Occam 2.1 compiler, including extensions from a subset of Occam 3 and from pi calculus.

This release includes: a rearrangement of the source tree and code rewrites.

Ctalk 0.0.20a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: improved parsing of complex expressions, bug fixes, documentation updates, and other changes.

Frink 2007-11-28 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: tools to build graphical UIs from within Frink, and improvements and fixes to the calling of Java functions from Frink.

NASM 2.00 has been released. NASM is a portable x86-32 and x86-64 assembler, supporting a variety of platforms and object file formats.

This release includes: x86-64 support; support for all public instruction set extensions up to and including SSE5; support for the ELF64, COFF64 and Mac OS X file formats; performance improvements; and bug fixes.

SuperWaba 5.84 has been released. It is a Java virtual machine for handheld devices.

This release includes: an update of the Symbian S60v3 license, and bug fixes.

EiffelStudio 6.1 has been released. EiffelStudio is a cross-platform Eiffel implementation and development environment.

This release includes: development environment improvements, multiple errors reported for each compilation degree, support for the MinGW C compiler on Windows, support for attached types, compiler speed improvements, and other changes.

R 2.6.1 has been released. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, similar to S.

This release includes: CHARSXP cache speed improvements, build fixes, bug fixes, and other changes.

Ctpp 1.0.26 has been released. It is a C99-compliant preprocessor for Ctalk, an object-oriented extension of C.

This release includes: support for AMD64 Linux, compatibility fixes, and bug fixes.

Vala 0.1.5 has been released. Vala "aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C." It offers features such as: interfaces, properties, lambda expressions, local variable type inference, and more.

This release includes: the Vala Project Generator, typeof support for generic type parameters, Cygwin and MinGW build fixes, bug fixes, and other changes.

newLISP 9.2.7 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes Guiserver-related changes.

Cat 0.18.2 has been released. Cat is a functional, stack-based programming language inspired by Joy.

This release includes: improvements to the MetaCat term rewriting optimisation system, bug fixes, standard library improvements, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-11-25 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: updated example programs, new functions, interpreter improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the inaugural North Florida Ruby Brigade meeting will be held on January 16, 2008.

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It has been announced that the next Boston Ruby Group Meeting will be held on December 4, 2007.

F-Script 2.0 (alpha) has been released. F-Script is an embeddable scripting language based on Smalltalk for Mac OS X, providing access to Cocoa and other Objective-C objects.