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The 2008 International Conference on Functional Programming has put out a call for papers. "ICFP 2008 provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries."

Submissions are due by April 2, 2008. The conference will be held from September 22 to 24, 2008, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

NASM 2.01 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 documentation improvements, and bug fixes.

Lua 5.1.3-rc5 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

This release candidate includes bug fixes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Berlin Python User Group will be held on January 23, 2008.

It has been announced that the first Montreal Python meetup will be held on February 7, 2008.

SP-Forth 4.19 has been released. SP-Forth is an ANS Forth implementation for Windows.

This release includes: optimizer improvements, updates to the assembler, exception handling enhancements, library improvements, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

Logtalk 2.31.2 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: updated support for the encoding/1 directive, compatibility with CxProlog 0.96.3 and SICStus Prolog 4.0, and improved support for YAP and SWI-Prolog.

Lua 5.1.3-rc4 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

This release candidate includes bug fixes.

It has been announced that registration is now open for PyCon 2008.

The early-bird registration deadline is February 20, with the regular registration deadline being March 7. The conference will be held from March 13 to 20, 2008, in Chicago.

Seed7 2008-01-20 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: string function optimizations, documentation updates, new and updated library functions, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that cobra-language.com is the new domain of the Cobra project. Cobra is a high-level language for .NET, including features such as generics, contracts, compile-time type inference, exception handling, garbage collection, and more.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group will be held on January 23, 2008.

Lua 5.1.3-rc3 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

This release candidate includes bug fixes and documentation updates.

Ctalk 0.0.35a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: improved SPARC compatibility, more flexible class variable handling, a streamlined interface for method return objects, bug fixes, and other changes.

Vala 0.1.6 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: support for instance delegates, support for conditional method compilation, support for nested generic types, limited support for nullable types, improved pointer support, basic support for method preconditions and postconditions, new and updated bindings, improved documentation, bug fixes, and other changes.

Roadsend Compiler for PHP 2.9.4 has been released. It is a multi-platform, open source compiler capable of creating native binaries from PHP source code.

This release includes: runtime improvements, FastCGI improvements, and bug fixes.

Lua 5.1.3-rc1 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

This release candidate includes bug fixes.

Poet 2.1.0 has been released. "Poet extends the Tcl language with objects featuring dynamic, prototype-based inheritance, persistence, and one-way constraints."

This release includes: updates for Tcl/Tk 8.5.0, support for Mac OS X, bug fixes, and other changes.

StrongForth 1.3 has been released. It is a statically-typed Forth-like language, with an implementation for DOS.

This release includes: new, renamed and extended words; support for all of the ANS Forth word sets, except for the omission of 17 words; and other changes.

Planet Prolog has been announced. It is a blog aggregator drawing from blogs that discuss Prolog and logic programming.