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NullLogic Embedded Scripting Language 0.9.1 has been released. Nesla is a portable, embeddable, object-oriented scripting language.

This release includes: the addition of eval(), support for string multiplication, new examples, bug fixes, and other changes.

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

It has been announced that the next Leipzig Python User Group meeting will be held on November 13, 2007.

It has been announced that the next Boston Ruby Group meeting will be held on November 13, 2007.

The 2008 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming has put out a call for workshop proposals. "ECOOP 2008 will host a number of workshops addressing different areas of object-oriented technology. Workshops serve as a forum for exchanging late breaking ideas and theories in an evolutionary stage. They typically focus on either in depth analysis or broad-ranging approaches to areas related to object-oriented technology."

The proposal deadline is December 26, 2007. The conference will be held from July 7 to 11, 2008, in Paphos, Cyprus.

It has been announced that the next FringeDC informal meeting will be held on November 10, 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.

ooRexx 3.2.0 has been released. ooRexx is a portable, open-source REXX implementation based on IBM Object REXX.

This release includes: improved performance of the DROP instruction, 'method' and 'methods' methods for the Object class, documentation updates, build fixes, a number of new language constructs, 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.

It has been announced that a tutorial describing how to implement a language using LLVM is now available. LLVM is a portable compiler infrastructure, offering a compilation strategy that allows for compile-time, link-time, run-time and offline program optimization.

It has been announced that the online edition of 'Starting Forth', by Leo Brodie and updated by Marcel Hendrix and FORTH Inc., is now available.

Algol 68 Genie Mark 11 has been released. It is an open source Algol 68 interpreter.

This release includes: support for the DIAG, TRNSP, COL and ROW pseudo-operators; support for sound and Fourier transforms; bug fixes; and other changes.

JRuby 1.1b1 has been released. JRuby is a Ruby interpreter written in Java.

This release includes: improved Ruby 1.8 compatibility, reduced memory usage, complete support for ahead-of-time and just-in-time compilation, and other changes.

ECMAScript Edition 4 Reference Implementation M1 has been released. It is an implementation of the ECMAScript Edition 4 specification, written in Standard ML.

Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.8.1 has been released. GHC is a portable, open-source, optimising Haskell 98 implementation.

This release includes: the completion of the first phase of the base package split, performance improvements due to the use of pointer tagging in the code generator, the addition of Haskell Program Coverage support to the compiler, an interactive debugger for GHCi, bug fixes, and other changes.

Allegro CL 8.1 (x86-64) for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) has been released. Allegro CL is a Common Lisp development system, supporting a number of platforms.

Herb Sutter has written a report summarizing the ISO C++ committee meeting held from October 1 to 6, 2007.

The topics discussed in the summary include: nullptr, explicit conversion operators, atomic types, multithreading, garbage collection, and more.

Mono Summit 2007 has put out a call for presenters. It will be held from November 28 to 30, 2007, in Madrid, Spain.

JRuby 1.0.2 has been released. JRuby is a Ruby interpreter written in Java.

This release includes: improved file IO performance, a reduced memory footprint, support for Rails 1.2.5, network compatibility fixes, bug fixes, and other changes.

Ikarus 0.0.1 has been released. "Ikarus is a free optimizing incremental native-code compiler for R6RS Scheme."

This is the initial release, supporting "over 80% of the most important features of R6RS."

haXe 1.16 has been released. haXe is a high-level, object-oriented language for developing Web sites and Web applications.

This release includes: improvements to the AS3 generator, the assignment of an index value to each enum constructor, bug fixes, and other changes.