PLNews: Programming Language News

It has been announced that the April 2009 Cobra Update is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Cobra community. Cobra is a high-level language for .NET, including features such as generics, contracts, compile-time type inference, exception handling, garbage collection, and more.

The Fortran Wiki has been announced. It is "an open venue for discussing all aspects of the Fortran programming language and scientific computing."

Seed7 2009-05-10 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: a new example program, the addition of the getNonDigits function to the scanstri.s7i library, experimental support for new attribute parameters, memory leak fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Leipzig Python User Group will be held on May 12, 2009.

It has been announced that the inaugural meeting of the Twin Cities Lisp Group meeting will be held on June 9, 2009. It is a group for Lisp users in and near Minneapolis, Minnesota.

EiffelStudio 6.4.7.8493 has been released. EiffelStudio is a cross-platform Eiffel implementation and development environment.

This release includes: debugger fixes, a memory corruption fix, a Windows installer fix, and other changes.

Ctalk 0.0.95a rc8 has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: the addition of the 'eval' keyword, the addition of the ANSITextBoxPane class, reliability improvements, and bug fixes.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.28 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: cross-compilation bug fixes, more reliable backtraces, debugger improvements, faster local calls on x86-32 and x86-64, bug fixes, and other changes.

cfunge 0.4.1 has been released. It is a Befunge98 interpreter.

This release includes: support for disabling some parts of cfunge to reduce memory usage, the tracking of exact bounds for Funge Space, and bug fixes.

The April 14 to 21, 2009,, April 21 to 28, 2009 and April 28 to May 5, 2009 editions of the Caml Weekly News are now available. They summarise recent developments and discussion within the OCaml community.

Digital Mars D 2.029 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: significant standard library updates, support for template function literals, and bug fixes.

Monster 0.12 has been released. Monster is an object-oriented programming language meant for game scripting.

This release includes: a package system, updated support for class loading, support for class constructors, support for named and optional functional parameters, improved stack traces, support for enums, bug fixes, and other changes.

IKVM 0.40 Release Candidate 1 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes bug fixes.

EuroForth 2009 has put out a call for papers. It is "an annual conference on the Forth programming language, stack machines, and related topics".

The deadline for draft papers is May 29, 2009. The conference will be held from September 4 to 6, 2009, at the University of Exeter in England.

Python 3.1 beta 1 has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

4tH 3.5d has been released. 4tH is a portable, open source Forth implementation.

This release includes: FP library bug fixes, new words, the removal of 'AS', a new example program, documentation updates, and other changes.

Reva 9.0 has been released. Reva is a Forth implementation running on Windows and Linux.

This release includes bug fixes.

The Scala 2.8 Preview document is now available. It summarises the planned changes for Scala 2.8. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional support.

The plans include: a redesign of the collection libraries, named and default arguments, package objects, improved Swing support, support for continuations, type specialization, a reworking of the REPL, dropping of most operations deprecated in earlier versions, dropping of support for the 1.4 version of the JVM, and other changes.

Scala 2.7.4 final has been released. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional support.

This release includes bug fixes.

The April 25, 2009 and May 2, 2009 editions of the Haskell Weekly News are now available. They summarise recent developments and discussion within the Haskell community.

The April 22, 2009 edition of the Tcl-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Tcl community.

tecomp 0.16 has been released. It is an open source, cross-platform Eiffel compiler.

This release includes: support for underscores in integer constants, the implementation of free operators, the implementation of exception objects, and other changes.

IronScheme 1.0 beta 3 has been released. It aims to be an R6RS Scheme implementation for the .NET DLR.

This release includes: improved R6RS compliance, compiler optimizations, improved exactness of numbers, and other changes.

Mosh 0.1.0 has been released. It is an R6RS Scheme interpreter.

This release includes: R6RS compliance, a new reference manual, a socket API, a FFI, support for building on Windows using Visual C++ and MinGW, optimizations, and other changes.

IBM Workstation APL2 Version 2 Service Level 14 has been released.

This release includes: an increase to the maximum length of simple workspace names, enlist support in selective specification expressions, and other changes.