PLNews: Programming Language News

It has been announced that the next FringeDC meeting will be held on July 25, 2009. FringeDC is a group for people in the Washington, D.C. area who are interested in non-mainstream programming languages, including Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, Prolog and Smalltalk.

Conrad Barski will be giving an introduction to Prolog.

IronPython 2.0.2 has been released. IronPython is an implementation of Python running on .NET.

This release includes bug fixes.

NASM 2.07 has been released. NASM is a portable x86-32 and x86-64 assembler, supporting a variety of platforms and object file formats.

This release includes: support for 64-bit Mach-O support, new ith and srec output formats, bug fixes, and other changes.

Scheme2Js 20090717 has been released. It is a Scheme compiler that emits JavaScript.

This release includes: pretty printing of its output, support for compressing/obfuscating the output, better error messages, the addition of arity checks, and license changes.

Seed7 2009-07-19 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: improvements to the charsets.s7i library; new functions in the charsets.s7i, scanfile.s7i, and scanstri.s7i libraries; documentation updates; and other changes.

Ctalk 0.0.96a rc4 has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release candidate includes: Mac OS X PPC support, GUI compatibility updates, and X11Pane-related improvements.

It has been announced that the next SeaFunc meeting will be held on July 29, 2009. SeaFunc is a group for people in the Seattle area who are interested in functional programming and other advanced programming language paradigms.

S-Lang 2.2.0 release candidate 1 has been released. S-Lang is an embeddable, interpreted language.

This release includes: the addition of a ternary expression, an optional integer specifying how many loop levels a break or condition statement should affect, support for multiline strings, new modules, new intrinsic functions, an update of the Unicode tables to version 5.1, and other changes.

The 2010 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Languages meets Program Verification has put out a call for papers. "The goal of PLPV is to foster and stimulate research at the intersection of programming languages and program verification."

Submissions are due by October 8, 2009. The workshop will be held on January 19, 2010, in Madrid, Spain.

Parrot 1.4.0 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: Key and Iterator refactoring, faster code generated by pbc_to_exe, NCI optimizations, support for building on Win64, garbage collector improvements, documentation updates, experimental OpenGL bindings and library, bug fixes, and other changes.

Shed Skin 0.2 has been released. Shed Skin is an experimental Python compiler that emits C++ code.

This release includes: seven new example programs, improved inlining, faster list slicing, loop optimizations, bug fixes, and other changes.

The July 18, 2009 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Haskell community.

The 2009 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML has put out a call for participation. ML 2009 "aims to provide a forum to encourage discussion and research on ML and related technology (higher-order, typed, or strict languages)."

It will be held in conjunction with ICFP 2009 on August 30, 2009, in Edinburgh, UK.

Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.10.4 has been released. GHC is a portable, open-source, optimising Haskell 98 implementation.

This release includes bug fixes.

GNU Guile 1.9.1 (alpha) has been released. Guile is a Scheme interpreter available as a library, designed for embedding within other applications.

This release includes: scm_set_port_seek and scm_set_port_truncate that use the scm_t_off type, bytevectors that are accessible through a C-friendly API and the generalized-vector API, changes to the object code file format, faster vector access, bug fixes, and other changes.

The July 15, 2009 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Python community.

cfunge 0.9.0 has been released. It is a Befunge98 interpreter.

This release includes bug fixes.

EiffelStudio 6.5.7.9743 has been released. EiffelStudio is a cross-platform Eiffel implementation and development environment.

This release includes improvements to the new output tool, and bug fixes.

Qore 0.7.5 has been released. Qore is a weakly-typed, multithreaded scripting language offering procedural and object-oriented capabilities, and SQL integration.

This release includes: support for an optional port number to datasources, the addition of a ModuleDir key to the hash output of get_qore_library_info(), update %include directive behaviour, improved error messages when trying to %include something that is not a regular files, bug fixes, and other changes.

GCC/UPC 4.3.2.4 has been released. GCC UPC adds support for Unified Parallel C to the GNU Compiler Collection.

This release includes: support for Mac OS X, improved conformance to the UPC 1.2 language specification, the implementation of UPC collectives support in the SMP-based runtime, GASP support, and optimization improvements.

Pike 7.8.316 has been released. Pike is a dynamic, object-oriented language with a C-like syntax.

This release includes: Sql.pgsql documentation improvements, the deprecation of Stdio.Fd_ref, performance improvements and optimizations, timeout support in Win32 threads, support for specifying modifiers via a mapping to '*' in sprintf(), support for generating little-endian floats with %F in sprintf(), the addition of Filesystem._Tar.extract, the addition of Parser.Tabular, numerous bug fixes, build improvements, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Phoenix Ruby User Group meeting will be held on July 13, 2009.

It has been announced that a Haskell Hack Day will be held in Edinburgh, UK on August 30, 2009.

The July 6, 2009 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Python community.

Hop 1.11.1 has been released. Hop is a higher-order language designed for developing Web applications.

This release includes bug fixes.