PLNews: Programming Language News

The February 27, 2008 edition of Tcl-URL! is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Tcl community.

The February 26, 2008 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Python community.

IKVM 0.36 Update 1 Release Candidate 4 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes: code generation optimizations, support for loading Java types with assembly qualified type names, spport for removing assertions during compilation, bug fixes, and other changes.

Scala 2.7.0-final has been released. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional support.

This release includes bug fixes.

Blue 1.4.2 has been released. Blue is a portable, high-level, dynamic programming language.

This release includes: improvements to the backtrace mechanism, and bug fixes.

CLIS has been announced. It is an interpreted, C-like programming language.

Kaffe 1.1.9 has been released. Kaffe is an open source, clean room Java virtual machine implementation.

This development release includes: build system improvements, support for JSR 166, a simplified threading subsystem interface, the removal of some bundled software, and other changes.

The February 19 to 26, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as: the release of OCaml 3.10.2 release candidate 1, OCamlcore Planet, other OCaml-related software releases, and more.

OCamlcore Planet has been announced. It is a feed aggregator, collecting OCaml-related news and blog postings.

haXe 1.18 has been released. haXe is a high-level, object-oriented language for developing Web sites and Web applications.

This release includes: improved ActiveScript 3 code generation, library additions and improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

newLISP 9.3.2 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: new IPv6 compile flavours for Linux, Mac OS X and BSD; the reporting of roundtrip time from 'net-ping' in microseconds; and other changes.

SWI-Prolog 5.6.51 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: CHR and clp(fd) updates, a new toplevel prompting style, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

Java Embedded Python 2.3 has been released. It allows for embedding CPython within Java applications.

This release includes improved array handling.

JCPP 1.0.7 has been released. It is a C preprocessor implemented in Java.

This release includes: improved error handling, support for #line directives, and bug fixes.

Shed Skin 0.0.27 has been released. Shed Skin is an experimental Python compiler which emits C++ code.

This release includes: support for more standard library modules, improved Mac OS X support, optimization of some builtins, bug fixes, and other changes.

GNU CLISP 2.44.1 has been released. It is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes a workaround for a bug in GCC 4.2.

Mono 1.9.0 Preview 3 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

The February 23, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarizes recent developments within the Haskell community.

Python 2.5.2 has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release includes bug fixes.

Ctalk 0.0.44a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: a SignalEvent class for interacting with operating system signals, improved expression analysis, a new example program, and bug fixes.