PLNews: Programming Language News

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.

newLISP 9.3.10 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: changes and bug fixes for the Cilk interface, reference parameter passing with context/default functor for built-in functions taking lists or strings, bug fixes, and other changes.

R 2.7.0 has been released. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.

This release includes: the use of pdf() as the default graphics device in non-interactive use, enhancements to the X11() device, agrep() support for multibyte character sets, new and updated functions, improved date handling, bug fixes, and other changes.

Mono 1.9.1 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

This release includes a number of bug fixes.

Vala 0.3.1 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: the enabling of non-null types by default, a new handwritten parser, support for virtual methods in interfaces, warnings when using deprecated syntax, updates to the GLib and GTK+ bindings, bug fixes, and other changes.

The April 21, 2008 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Python community.

The April 15 to 22, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Caml community.

FreeBASIC 0.18.5 Beta has been released. FreeBASIC is an open-source BASIC compiler offering compatibility with Microsoft QuickBasic, while also adding features such as inline assembly, pointers, unsigned data types, and more.

This release includes: installation changes, bug fixes, and other changes.

Linotte 0.4.1 has been released. It is a programming language with a syntax inspired by French.

The April 21, 2008 edition of This Week in Ruby is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Ruby community.

Ruby 1.8.7-preview2 has been released. Ruby is a dynamic, cross-platform, object-oriented language.

Seed7 2008-04-20 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: documentation improvements, gcd and modInverse functions for the bigint.s7i library, memory leak fixes, new example programs, bug fixes, and other changes.

Ctalk 0.0.48a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: performance improvements, improvements to the interface between Ctalk and C, and bug fixes.

Tcl/Tk 8.4.19 has been released. Tcl is a dynamic, cross-platform scripting language.

This release includes: version 2.5.5 of the http package, improved support for 64-bit Solaris builds, bug fixes, and other changes.

EuroPython 2008 has put out a call for participation. "EuroPython is an annual volunteer-run conference for the communities around the Python programming language, including the Plone and Zope communities."

It will be held from July 7 to 12, 2008, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Sleep 2.1-b22 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: ordered hash improvements, profiler accuracy improvements, and other changes.