PLNews: Programming Language News

Groovy 1.7-RC-2 has been released. Groovy is a dynamic, object-oriented language for the Java Platform.

This release candidate includes minor enhancements and bug fixes.

It has been announced that the next Phoenix Ruby User Group meeting will be held on December 14, 2009.

It has been announced that a prerelease of TinyCOBOL is now available. TinyCOBOL is an open source COBOL 85 compiler.

This release includes: improved variable length file support, the use of VB-ISAM version 2 for indexed file IO, and other changes.

Lisp Flavoured Erlang 0.5.1 has been released. It is a Lisp syntax front-end to the Erlang compiler.

This release includes support for running on R13B03.

The 3rd European Lisp Symposium has put out a call for papers. "The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects."

The submission deadline is January 29, 2010. The symposium will be held on May 6 and 7, 2010, in Lisbon, Portugal.

The 26th International Conference on Logic Programming has put out a call for papers.

The submission deadline is January 26, 2010. The conference will be held from July 16 to 19, 2010, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

The Fourth ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Languages meets Program Verification has put out a call for participation. The workshop aims to "foster and stimulate research at the intersection of programming languages and program verification."

It will be held on January 19, 2010, in conjunction with POPL 2010 in Madrid, Spain.

MountainWest RubyConf 2010 has been announced. It is a two-day conference focusing on Ruby.

It will be held on March 11 and 12, 2010 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

The December 1 to 8, 2009 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Objective Caml community.

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

This release includes: CPython 2.6 language and standard library compatibility, improved .NET integration, an update to the latest version of the DLR, performance improvements, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the London Financial Python Users Group will be held on December 14, 2009.

The December 9, 2009 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Python community.

Mono 2.6 RC1 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

This release candidate includes: partial support for LINQ to SQL, a new debugger engine, partial support for C# 4.0 and .NET 4.0 APIs, ParallelFx support, DLR support, a sandbox and its verifier, an LLVM-based backend, and other changes.

SWI-Prolog 5.9.4 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: documentation updates, improved support for aborting computations, bug fixes, and other changes.

newLISP v.10.1.8 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes mutable objects in Functional Object Oriented Programming (FOOP).

Seed7 2009-12-06 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, charsets.s7i library support for some new codepages, the renaming of the 'remove' and 'rename' functions to 'removeFile' and 'moveFile', updates to the toutf8.sd7 example program, and other changes.

The December 13, 2009 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Haskell community.

The November 24 to December 1, 2009 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the OCaml community.

Digital Mars D 2.037 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: array improvements, the merge of ClassInfo into TypeInfo_Class, support for conditional expressions ?: as modifiable lvalues, std.math improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

Digital Mars D 1.053 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 bug fixes.

Groovy 1.6.7 has been released. Groovy is a dynamic, object-oriented language for the Java Platform.

It has been announced that ECMAScript, Fifth Edition has been approved as an ECMA standard.

Python 2.7 alpha 1 has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This alpha release includes: various features backported from Python 3.1, an ordered dictionary implementation, and other changes.

S-Lang 2.2.2 has been released. S-Lang is an embeddable, interpreted language.

This release includes bug fixes and documentation updates.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Chicago Python User Group will be held on December 10, 2009.