PLNews: Programming Language News

The RubyNation 2009 has put out a call for speakers. "RubyNation is an annual Ruby conference serving the Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC areas."

Submissions are due by March 21, 2009. The conference will be held on June 12 and 13, 2009, in Reston, VA, USA.

It has been announced that historic releases of Gabmit Scheme are now available online.

Gambit-C v4.4.1 has been released. Gambit-C includes a Scheme interpreter, and a Scheme compiler that emits portable C code.

This release includes: documentation updates, memory leak fixes, improved Emacs keybindings for the REPL, improved decompilation of quasiquotes, bug fixes, and other changes.

SWI-Prolog 5.7.6 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: a library for TIPC support, memory leak fixes, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

The Nexus programming language has been announced. It is an "object-oriented, dynamically-typed, reflective programming language", drawing from Lua and Ruby.

It has been announced that the next Boston Ruby Group meeting will be held on March 10, 2009.

Vala 0.5.7 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: support for signals in static D-Bus clients, improved asynchronous method support, reporting of unused internal methods, extended POSIX bindings, FUSE and libdaemon bindings, and bug fixes.

Mono 2.4 Preview RC 1 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

JRuby 1.2.0RC1 has been released. JRuby is a Ruby interpreter written in Java.

This release includes: performance improvements, improved Ruby 1.9 support, faster parsing, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting will be held on March 4, 2009. Erik Charlebois will be discussing Haskell for Lisp programmers.

The New York Groovy / Grails Meetup Group has been announced.

Groovy 1.6 has been released. Groovy is a dynamic, object-oriented language for the Java Platform.

This release includes: runtime performance improvements, support for multiple assignments, optional return in if/else and try/catch blocks, AST transformations and transformation annotations, the Grape module and dependency system, built-in JSR-223 scripting engine; metaprogramming improvements; and other changes.

The Belgian Groovy and Grails User Group has been announced. The first meeting will be held on March 19, 2009, in Mechelen, Belgium.

Monster 0.11 Alpha has been released. Monster is an object-oriented programming language meant for game scripting.

This release includes: complete inheritance and polymorphism; 'abstract', 'final' and 'override' function keywords; support for modules and the 'import' statement; support for idle functions; improved threading; and other changes.

tecomp 0.10 has been released. It is an open source, cross-platform Eiffel compiler.

This release includes: the addition of default_out to the ANY class, multibranch statements, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group will be held on February 26, 2009. Marc-Antoine Desroches will present about VLAM Compyle.

Digital Mars D 2.025 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: support for Mac OS X, platform-specific bin and lib directories, bug fixes, and other changes.

Digital Mars D 1.040 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: support for Mac OS X, platform-specific bin and lib directories, and other changes.

Qore 0.7.3 has been released. Qore is a weakly-typed, multithreaded scripting language offering procedural and object-oriented capabilities, and SQL integration.

This release includes: XML parsing improvements, timeouts for socket connections, bug fixes, and other changes.

IronPython 2.0.1 has been released. IronPython is an implementation of Python running on .NET.

This release includes: faster float-integer comparisons, other performance improvements, and bug fixes.

Python 3.0.1 has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release includes bug fixes.

Ctalk 0.0.94a rc2 has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: the addition of method call stacks for exceptions, improved expression evaluation, bug fixes, and other changes.

Mono 2.4 Preview 3 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

Parrot 0.9.1 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: support for portable Inf, NaN, and -0.0; a new experimental BigNum implementation; Pair as a dynamic loadable PMC; the removal of the SArray PMC; documentation updates; improvements to the IMCC compiler; improvements to the PHP and ECMAScript language implementations; the separation of the Lua, Rakudo, lazy-k, unlambda and WMLScript implementations; the removal of the Zcode implementation; bug fixes; and other changes.

Frink 2009-02-04 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: support for incrementally re-painting on-screen graphics on demand, functions for tracking leap seconds, and updated currency codes.