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The second OCaml Summer Project has been announced. "The OSP is again aimed at encouraging growth in the OCaml community by funding students over the summer to work on open-source projects in OCaml."

Ctalk 0.0.38a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: the addition of the SignalHandler class, support for installing Ctalk methods to handle OS signals, and bug fixes.

IronPython 2.0 Alpha 8 has been released. IronPython is an implementation of Python running on .NET.

This release includes: support for building with Visual Studio 2008, bug fixes, and other changes.

IronPython 1.1.1 has been released. IronPython is an implementation of Python running on .NET.

This release includes bug fixes.

The 4th Haskell Hackathon has been announced. It will be held from April 11 to 13, 2008, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Kite 1.0a2 has been released. Kite is a small, object-oriented language.

This release includes: clarified class semantics, and bug fixes.

Arc has been released. Arc is a dialect of Lisp designed for exploratory programming.

CHICKEN 3.0.0 has been released. CHICKEN is a portable Scheme compiler that emits C code.

This release includes: support for Mac OS X universal binaries, library additions, build system improvements, and other changes.

Logtalk 2.31.3 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: improved support for the encoding/1 directive, improved Quintus Prolog integration, updated installer and integration scripts for detecting outdated Logtalk user data folders, and other changes.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.14 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: revived support for OpenBSD, bug fixes, and other changes.

Wraith Scheme 1.31 has been released. It is an R5RS Scheme implementation for Mac OS X.

This release includes bug fixes.

It has been announced that the next London Ruby User Group meeting will be held on February 11, 2008.

Tcl/Tk 8.5.1 RC0 has been released. Tcl is a dynamic, cross-platform scripting language.

amforth 2.5 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the AVR ATmega microcontroller family.

This release includes: the addition of more microcontroller-specific words, and bug fixes.

4tH 3.5c release 2 has been released. 4tH is a portable, open source Forth implementation.

This release includes: support for defining the default 4tH directory via an environment variable, support for scripting the multitasking environment, library rewrites, and other changes.

FlashForth 3.2 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the PIC18F.

This release includes: faster compilation, support for writing interrupt routines in Forth or assembler, better MPLAB integration, and other changes.

It has been announced that a Smalltalk meeting will be held in London, England on March 8, 2008.

Cobra 0.7 has been released. Cobra is a high-level language for .NET, including features such as generics, contracts, compile-time type inference, exception handling, garbage collection, and more.

This release includes: an optional 'invariant' clause for class, interface and struct definitions; support for attributes; support for abstract classes; improved compiler warnings; new and updated sample programs; bug fixes; and other changes.

Ctalk 0.0.37a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: the addition of methods to the Time class, performance improvements, greater flexibility in the use of C include files, and bug fixes.

The Seventh ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop has put out a call for papers. "This workshop will bring together the open source, academic, and industrial programming communities of Erlang. It will enable participants to familiarize themselves with recent developments on new techniques and tools tailored to Erlang, novel applications, draw lessons from users' experiences and identify research problems and common areas relevant to the practice of Erlang and functional programming."

The submission deadline is June 10, 2008. The workshop will take place from September 22 to 24, 2008, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

IKVM 0.36 Update 1 Release Candidate 2 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes a bug fix in DynamicMethod-based serialization for fields typed as ghost interfaces.

F# 1.9.3.14 has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This release includes: support for constructed classes that are mutually recursive with other types, the deprecation of the Microsoft.FSharp.Core.Func module, the addition of '%' and '%%' operators, bug fixes, and other changes.

Flow 1.0 has been released. It is a Brainfuck-like language, with two-dimensional code and threads.

Digital Mars D 2.010 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: the addition of the 'pure' keyword, support for WinMain and DllMain in template mixins, bug fixes, and other changes.

Digital Mars D 1.026 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: support for WinMain and DllMain in template mixins, and bug fixes.