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Larceny v0.963 has been released. It is a multi-platform Scheme implementation that supports the IEEE/ANSI, R5RS, ERR5RS and R6RS standards.

This release includes bug fixes.

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

This release includes: a rewrite of the haxe.remoting package, the new haxe.io package, conditional compilation changes, the removal of the physical equality operators, a new haxe.Int32 class, support for resources, support for default values for optional parameters, library changes, haXe/PHP integration, and other changes.

MID4th 1.44 has been released. It is an open source Forth implementation for mobile devices.

This release includes: the new JOY word, support for UTF-8 and UTF-16 input, a working block editor, improved error handling, and other changes.

Planet Vancouver.rb has been announced. It is a aggregator drawing together Ruby-related information pertaining to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

WishLisp 0.0.1.3.2 has been released. It is a Lisp interpreter implemented in C#.

This release includes: recursion support, support for the < Common Lisp operator, support for several Common Lisp functions, and a new sample showing how to integrate WishLisp in a .NET application.

It has been announced that a Lisp meetup will be held in London, UK on August 9, 2008.

newLISP 9.4.4 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: the elimination of the deprecated replace-assoc, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

Ctalk 0.0.64a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes improved class variable expression analysis, and compatibility fixes for Solaris and DJGPP.

Blue 1.6.1 has been released. Blue is a portable, high-level, dynamic programming language.

This release includes: the addition of int, abs, round and trig methods to the number type; memory leak fixes; support for detecting and freeing cyclic references in lexical variables; bug fixes; and other changes.

Ruby 1.9.0-3 has been released. Ruby is a dynamic, cross-platform, object-oriented language.

Aspyct 0.9.2 has been released. It is a library that allows for aspect-oriented programming using Python.

This release includes: the addition of atPrint, afterPrint, afterCall, atRaise, beforeInit, afterInit, restoreInit functions; and bug fixes.

The 2008 Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop has put out a call for participation. The workshop will be held on September 26, 2008, in Victoria, Canada.

The 2008 International Conference on Logic Programming has put out a call for poster submissions. The abstract submission deadline is August 15, 2008, with the conference being held in Udine, Italy, from December 9 to 13, 2008.

Ctpp 1.0.38 has been released. It is a preprocessor for Ctalk, an object-oriented extension of C.

This release includes compatibility fixes for GCC on Solaris.

Wraith Scheme 1.33 has been released. It is an R5RS Scheme implementation for Mac OS X.

This release includes bug fixes and performance improvements.

REALbasic 2008 Release 3.1 has been released. REALbasic is an object-oriented BASIC dialect and development environment, supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

This release includes bug fixes.

It has been announced that Excelsior JET 3.6 has reached End-of-Life status. Users are recommended to upgrade to a more recent version.

The July 23, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now accessible. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Haskell community.

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

This edition covers topics such as: profiling OCaml using gprof, getting the name of the currently-executing function, and other changes.

Larceny 0.962 has been released. It is a multi-platform Scheme implementation that supports the IEEE/ANSI, R5RS, ERR5RS and R6RS standards.

This release includes bug fixes.