PLNews: Programming Language News

Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 5 has been released. Excelsior JET is a Java implementation including support for ahead-of-time compilation.

This release includes: faster JIT compilation, improved Eclipse RCP support, improved application performance, Excelsior Installer improvements, and other changes.

newLISP v10.0.3 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: 'swap' support for exchanging any two places, support for PPC AIX, bug fixes, and other changes.

Frink 2009-03-28 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 improvements to the graphics library.

Blue 1.7.3 has been released. Blue is a portable, high-level, dynamic programming language.

This release includes: tweaks to the random library, the addition of the array slice method, bug fixes, and other changes.

tecomp 0.14 has been released. It is an open source, cross-platform Eiffel compiler.

This release includes: conversion procedure improvements, improved support for combinations of labeled tuples and anchored types, improved calculation of replicated invariants, bug fixes, and other changes.

The March 17 to 24, 2009 edition and March 24 to 31, 2009 edition of the Caml Weekly News are now available. They summarise recent developments and discussion within the OCaml community.

Seed7 2009-03-29 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 updates, the movement of the cmd_sh and popen functions from progs.s7i and seed7_05.s7i to shell.s7i, the addition of the shell function, improved code generation for some bigInteger operations, and other changes.

Algol 68 Genie Mark 16 has been released. It is an open source Algol 68 interpreter.

This release includes documentation updates and regression fixes.

IronPython 2.6 Alpha 1 has been released. IronPython is an implementation of Python running on .NET.

This release includes: improved support for CPython 2.6 features, the use of adaptive compilation, the installation of NGEN'ed binaries by default, installer improvements, and other changes.

Vala 0.6.0 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: improvements to the .gir reader and writer; librsvg-2.0, libosso and V4L2 bindings; and bug fixes.

The March 28, 2009 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Haskell community.

The March 28, 2009 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Python community.

The March 27, 2009 edition of Tcl-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Tcl community.

The Dynamic Languages Symposium 2009 has put out a call for papers. It is "a forum for discussion of dynamic languages, their implementation and application."

The submission deadline is June 1, 2009. The symposium will be held from October 25 to 29, 2009, in Orlando, Florida, USA.

The 13th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages has put out a call for papers. It is "a forum where researchers, students, and professionals can present and discuss the fundamental principles and innovations in the design, definition, analysis, transformation and implementation of programming languages and systems."

The abstract submission deadline is April 6, 2009, and the paper submission deadline is April 13, 2009. The symposium will be held from August 19 to 21, 2009, in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

It has been announced that the next Tucson Python Language Enthusiasts meeting will be held on March 24, 2009. Ben Reynwar will be discussing Django, and Lucas Taylor will discuss Twisted.

Gambas 2.12 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: updates to the Japanese translation, a Malayalam language translation, bug fixes, and other changes.

The March 21, 2009 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Haskell community.

PLT Scheme v4.1.5 has been released. PLT Scheme is a family of Scheme implementations, including DrScheme and MzScheme.

This release includes: Web Server and Scribble improvements, improved support for units and contracts, new language levels and teachpacks, the new 'bitwise-bit-field' function, bug fixes, and other changes.

Erlang/OTP R13A has been released. Erlang is a general-purpose language, offering support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

haXe 2.03 has been released. haXe is a high-level, object-oriented language for developing Web sites and Web applications.

This release includes: support for SWC output, optimizations, the addition of flash.Vector.indexOf and flash.Vector.lastIndexOf, bug fixes, and other changes.

Parrot 1.0.0 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: documentation updates; the separation of the Pynie, Cardinal and APL language implementations; the removal of the deprecated Tqueue and Closure PMCs; and other changes.

jhc 0.6.0 has been released. It is a Haskell compiler that focuses on producing efficient programs using whole program analysis and other optimizations.

This release includes: library improvements, faster compilation, cross compilation support, and other changes.

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

This release includes: improved Ruby 1.9 support, more aggressive optimizations, a compiler and runtime cleanup and performance audit, faster parsing, bug fixes, and other changes.

Cython 0.11 has been released. It is a language for writing C extensions for the Python programming language, based on Pyrex.

This release includes: the moving of most temp allocation to the code generation phase, better warning of potential double-frees and memory leaks, the printing of the parse tree on compiler crashes, testing framework enhancements, size_t as a native type, bug fixes, optimizations, and other changes.