PLNews: Programming Language News

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.

SWI-Prolog 5.6.47 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: new partition/4,5, append/2, include/3, exclude/3, and merge_options/3 library predicates; documentation updates; bug fixes; and other changes.

GNU CLISP 2.43 has been released. It is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: build improvements, the dropping of support for some ancient systems, bug fixes, and other changes.

nwcc 0.7.4 has been released. nwcc is a portable C compiler targeting a variety of systems.

This release includes: initial support for various GNU C and C99 features, and bug fixes.

Ctalk 0.0.19a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: minor bug fixes, and documentation improvements.

Gambit-C v4.1.0 has been released. It is a portable Scheme implementation.

This release includes: basic support for Jazz objects, the addition of table-merge and table-merge\!, the addition of #\esc, the renaming of #\rubout to #\delete, bug fixes, and other changes.

IBM Workstation APL2 for Multiplatforms Version 2.0 Service Level 11 has been released.

This release includes: the lifting of the limit on the number of names to the left of the assignment arrow when using vector specification, a high-performance REPLACEX external function for replacing instances of a string or strings in a character vector, Windows-related improvements, and other changes.

It has been announced that a mailing list is available for the current Smalltalk ANSI standardisation efforts.

Gambas 1.9.91 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: support for using Gambas as a scripting language, improvements to the IDE icon editor, enhancements to the gb.pdf component, and interpreter support for returning error stacktraces.

Sleep 2.1-b20 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: warnings when modifications of read-only arrays and hashes are attempted, the evaluation of $null as null rather than "" when passed as a Java string, support for $null elements in Sleep arrays when converting to Java arrays, bug fixes, and other changes.

Python ARtists of ARkansas has been announced. It is a group for Python users in or near Arkansas.

GNU Smalltalk 2.95f has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This is the first release candidate for GNU Smalltalk 3.0. It includes: updates to the browser to work with the new syntax, a split of the XML package into five smaller packages, bug fixes, and other changes.

The November 11, 2007 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarizes recent developments within the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the release of GHC 6.8.1, other Haskell-related software releases, recent Haskell-related blog posts, and more.

PHP 5.2.5 has been released. PHP is a general-purpose scripting language, suitable for Web development and embedding within HTML.

This release includes: security fixes, an upgrade to PCRE 7.3, an update of the timezone database to 2007.9, speed improvements for some array_*() functions, bug fixes, and other changes.

Berkeley Unified Parallel C 2.6.0 has been released. UPC is an extension to C for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, providing a uniform programming model for both shared and distributed memory hardware.

This release includes: the enabling of the multiconf build manager by default; the use of RDMA support on LAPI/Federation systems by lapi-conduit; support for CrayXT/Linux, SunC/Linux, OpenBSD/x86; bug fixes; and other changes.

Seed7 2007-11-10 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: updates to the scanner.s7i library, documentation updates, improved timezone handling, and other changes.

XLOGO 0.9.90 has been released. XLOGO is a Logo interpreter.

This release includes: a new algorithm for drawing, editor updates, zooming support, and other changes.

Logtalk 2.30.8 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes a fix for a bug in the compilation of synchronized predicates on single-threaded Prolog compilers.

Larceny v0.95 has been released. It is a multi-platform Scheme implementation that supports the IEEE/ANSI, R5RS, ERR5RS and R6RS standards.

IronPython 2.0 Alpha 6 has been released. IronPython is an implementation of Python running on .NET.

This release includes: the use of the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL), improved COM events support, the ToyScript DLR sample, and other changes.