PLNews: Programming Language News

The May 13 to 20, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Caml community.

Blue 1.5.5 has been released. Blue is a portable, high-level, dynamic programming language.

This release includes: support for array sorting and conversion to strings, improved string performance, simplified user defined types, and other changes.

CMUCL 19e has been released. CMUCL is a free, multiplatform ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: support for Intel Mac OS X, a new option to SAVE-LISP allowing for the creation of executable Lisp images that do not require a runtime loader, ANSI-compliance fixes, bug fixes, and other changes.

Digital Mars D 2.014 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 -lib switch to generate library files, a -man switch to browse the manual, changes to the generation of object files, a rewrite of the rdmd utility, standard library improvements and updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

Digital Mars D 1.030 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 -lib switch to generate library files, a -man switch to browse the manual, changes to the generation of object files, bug fixes, and other changes.

Ctalk 0.0.52a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: support for using simple compound messages in Ctalk statements, the AssociativeArray class, and compatibility fixes.

STklos 0.98 has been released. STklos is a Scheme implementation that supports most R5RS features.

This release includes: the replacement of the C/invoke FFI library with libffi, the addition of the --build-sync-file option, and bug fixes.

CLIS 0.8.1 has been released. It is an interpreted, C-like programming language.

This release includes a chat server example program, and a fix for an error with pointers to reference variables.

GNU CLISP 2.45 has been released. It is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: experimental just-in-time compilation of byte-compiled closures, new functions and macros, REPL commands tat can accept arguments, bug fixes, and other changes.

Yasm 0.7.1 has been released. Yasm is a modular assembler, allowing for the support of multiple syntaxes, multiple output object formats, multiple instruction sets, and optimizations.

This release includes: AVX instruction fixes, build fixes, and CPU flags fixes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on May 20, 2008. Dan Sabath will be speaking about the WhitePages.com public search API.

High Level Assembly v1.102 has been released. HLA adds high-level language syntax and constructs to x86 assembly.

This release includes: support for Mac OS X, a rewritten code generator, bug fixes, and other changes.

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

This release includes: support for backing CObjects with garbage-collected storage, a relocatable installation if possible, a rewrite of the virtual filesystem subsystem, suport for thread-local variables, bindings to Cairo and LibSDL, bug fixes, and other changes.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0.3 has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: new methods, a new -i command line option for gst-load, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting will be held on May 22, 2008. Drew Crampsie will be discussing Lisp on Lines.

The June 11, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Haskell community.

The May 12, 2008 edition of This Week in Ruby is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Ruby community.

LLVM 2.3 Pre-Release has been released. LLVM is a portable compiler infrastructure, offering a compilation strategy that allows for compile-time, link-time, run-time and offline program optimization.

SWI-Prolog 5.6.55 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: the renaming of hash_term/2 to term_hash/2, the addition of term_hash/4, the addition of several missing ordered set operations, PlUnit enhancements, bug fixes, and other changes.

The May 12, 2008 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Python community.