PLNews: Programming Language News

Sleep 2.1-b24 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: improved support for circular data structures, a taint mode, and other changes.

Logtalk 2.31.5 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: support for checking arithmetic expressions for calls to non-portable functions, updated implementation of the thread/1 built-in predicate, new multi-threading examples, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

The April 28, 2008 edition of the Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Python community.

Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 has been released. It is a Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 implementation for Mac OS X.

It has been announced that the next (boston lispers) meeting will be held on May 27, 2008.

Roadsend PHP 2.9.6 has been released. It is a multi-platform, open source compiler capable of creating native binaries from PHP source code.

This release includes: a new skeleton extension, a new C API for accessing the runtime, runtime performance and compatibility fixes, a new test suite, portability fixes for MinGW and FreeBSD, and other changes.

Wraith Scheme 1.32 has been released. It is an R5RS Scheme implementation for Mac OS X.

This release includes bug fixes.

newLISP 9.3.11 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: new functions for customizing newLISP's interactive shell, improved HTTP request pre-processing, bug fixes, and other changes.

The April 22 to 29, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Caml community.

The April 28, 2008 edition of 'This Week in Ruby' is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Ruby community.

Groovy 1.5.6 has been released. Groovy is a dynamic, object-oriented language for the Java Platform.

This release includes bug fixes.

Ctalk 0.0.49a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: improvements to the internal registration of C variables and functions, and preprocessor compatibility improvements.

haXe/PHP Alpha 2 has been released. It is an extended version of the haXe compiler, targeting PHP.

This release includes: the implementation of resources, the integration of haxe.Template and haxe.Timer, bug fixes, new tests, and other changes.

Lisp Flavoured Erlang 0.2 has been released. It is a Lisp syntax front-end to the Erlang compiler.

This release includes: separate variable and function namespaces, macro-related cleanups, pattern aliases, and other changes.

Dao 1.0 Preview has been released. Dao is a dynamically-typed, multithreaded, object-oriented scripting language.

This preview release includes: a new type system and new data types, a macro system, improved support for concurrent and distributed programming, plus other changes.

EiffelStudio 6.2.7.3181 has been released. EiffelStudio is a cross-platform Eiffel implementation and development environment.

This release includes: the Eiffel Information System for referencing external documentation from Eiffel code and vice-versa, a new unit testing tool based on the eweasel framework, a new contract editor tool, bug fixes, and other changes.

Ctpp 1.0.30 has been released. It is a preprocessor for Ctalk, an object-oriented extension of C.

This release includes compatibility and bug fixes.

SigScheme 0.8.3 has been released. It is a small Scheme interpreter, suitable for embedded use.

This release includes test-related changes.

Digital Mars D 2.013 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: an -ignore switch for ignoring unsupported pragmas, documentation updates, a compile-time warning for hidden methods, 'pure' and 'nothrow' function attributes, partial ordering rules to disambiguate function overloading, std.perf cleanups, the addition of std.encoding, bug fixes, and other changes.

Digital Mars D 1.029 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: an -ignore switch for ignoring unsupported pragmas, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

The April 24, 2008 edition of the Tcl-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Tcl community.

JRuby 1.1.1 has been released. JRuby is a Ruby interpreter written in Java.

This release includes: interpreter method dispatch speed improvements, other performance improvements, reduced memory consumption, improved bigdecimal support, bug fixes, and other changes.

Sleep 2.1-b23 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: changed return value types of certain sleep.interfaces.Loadable methods, new command line options for printing timing and profiling information for a script, basic cycle detection for the SleepUtils.describe method, and other changes.

Blue 1.5.3 has been released. Blue is a portable, high-level, dynamic programming language.

This release includes: refined user-defined types, simplified garbage collection, bug fixes, and other changes.

Scala 2.7.1 RC2 has been released. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional support.

This release includes: the addition of scala.Either to the standard library, bug fixes, and other changes.