PLNews: Programming Language News

It has been announced that scans of the original CDC 6000 Pascal compiler source code, from 1976, are now available online.

Python 2.4.5 (final) has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release includes bug fixes.

Python 2.3.7 (final) has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release includes bug fixes.

The 2008 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML has put out a call for papers. This workshop aims to provide "a forum to encourage discussion and research on ML and related technology."

Submissions are due by June 23, 2008. The workshop will be held on September 21, 2008, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Tcl/Tk 8.5.2 RC0 has been released. Tcl is a dynamic, cross-platform scripting language.

The March 4 to 11, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Caml community.

It has been announced that registration is now open for the European Tcl/Tk User Meeting 2008. The meeting will be held on June 6 and 7, 2008, in Strasbourg, France.

It has been announced that the next pyCologne meeting will be held on March 12, 2008.

Digital Mars D 2.012 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 removal of std.math2, a compile time error for comparing class types against null, support for struct destructors and postblits, the addition of predefined version(unittest), standard library improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

Digital Mars D 1.028 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: a compile time error for comparing class types against null, and bug fixes.

newLISP 9.3.3 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: new options for 'bind' and 'search', fixed Solaris compilation, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the London Scala Users Group will be held on March 12, 2008.

The March 9, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Haskell community.

It has been announced that the next Leipzig Python User Group meeting will be held on March 11, 2008.

Blue 1.4.3 has been released. Blue is a portable, high-level, dynamic programming language.

This release includes: speed and reliability improvements, refactored attributes and dictionaries, support for medium-grained mutexes, a refactoring of the backtrace mechanism, and other changes.

Gecode 2.1.1 has been released. It is "an open, free, portable, accessible, and efficient environment for developing constraint-based systems and applications."

This release includes bug fixes.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0a has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: support for Seaside, the gst-remote tool for remotely controlling a GNU Smalltalk VM via a TCP socket, unbuffered sockets support, and other changes.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0.2 has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: improved GNUPlot bindings, a variety of new methods, bug fixes, and other changes.

Invocation Programming Language 1.0.1 has been released. It is an implementation of a concurrent programming language described in 'Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression', by Karl Fant.

This is the initial public release.

Mono 1.9.0 Preview 4 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.