PLNews: Programming Language News

It has been announced that Planet D has moved to http://planet.dsource.org. It is a feed aggregator drawing from D-related blogs.

It has been announced that the next Hamburg Lisp Meeting will be held on March 26, 2008.

JALv2 2.4b has been released. It extends Just Another Language with more variable types, a CASE statement, support for cooperative multitasking, and other features.

This release includes: new 'exit loop' and 'repeat until' constructs, bug fixes, and other changes.

The March 18 to 25, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Caml community.

This edition covers: the NW Functional Programming Interest Group, the Lego Mindstorm Library v0.5 release, the long-term storage of OCaml values, and more.

haXe 2.0 has been announced. haXe is a high-level, object-oriented language for developing Web sites and Web applications.

haXe 2.0 is planned for after the haXe 1.19 release. A list of change proposals is available.

CHICKEN 3.1.0 has been released. CHICKEN is a portable Scheme compiler that emits C code.

This release includes: improved MinGW support, the use of PCRE 7.6 by the regex unit, additions and fixes to the posix unit, additions and fixes to the hashtable functions in the extras unit, and other changes.

EiffelStudio 6.2.7.2839 has been released. EiffelStudio is a cross-platform Eiffel implementation and development environment.

This development release includes: improved compiler code generation, support for a new ISE_USER_FILES environment variable, bug fixes, and other changes.

The March 23, 2008 edition of Tcl-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Tcl community.

It has been announced that the next St. Louis Lisp User's Group meeting will be held on March 28, 2008.

Blue 1.5.1 has been released. Blue is a portable, high-level, dynamic programming language.

This release includes: array-related improvements and bug fixes.

It has been announced that an APL meeting will be held in Hannover, Germany on June 12 and 13, 2008.

It has been announced that registration is now open for the 1st European Lisp Symposium. The symposium will be held in Bordeaux, France, on May 22 and 23, 2008.

MCL 5.2 has been released. It is a Common Lisp implementation for the Macintosh.

It has been announced that the new REBOL 3 homepage is now accessible. REBOL is a dynamic, multi-paradigm language, with emphasis placed on networked and distributed computing.

Disciplined Disciple Compiler Alpha 1 has been released. "Disciple is an explicitly lazy dialect of Haskell which supports destructive update, computational effects, type directed field projections and some other useful things."

This is the initial alpha release of DDC.

Gambit-C v4.2.5 has been released. Gambit-C includes a Scheme interpreter, and a Scheme compiler that emits portable C code.

This release includes: build system improvements, working -prelude and -postlude options, the removal of a non-ASCII character from lib/_num.scm, and other changes.

Ctalk 0.0.45a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: improved evaluation of function parameters, template translation of C functions to methods, bug fixes, and other changes.

ClearLisp 1.1 has been released. It is a Common Lisp interpreter for .NET.

This release includes: additions to the standard library, bug fixes, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-03-19 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: the addition of functions to the scanstri.s7i library, improved support for the itf_eq and itf_ne primitive actions, improved handling of bitsets with negative elements, improvements to the BASIC interpreter example program, and other changes.

cfunge 0.2.0 has been released. It is a Befunge98 interpreter.

This release includes: support for fingerprints, support for concurrency, a sandbox mode, bug fixes, and other changes.