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Logtalk 2.31.4 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: improved multi-threading support, new multi-threading examples, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Sydney Smalltalk Users Group meeting will be held on February 26, 2008.

The February 22, 2008 edition of the Tcl-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Tcl community.

The European Tcl/Tk User Meeting 2008 has been announced. It will be held in Strasbourg, France, on June 6 and 7, 2008.

Linotte 0.4.0 Beta has been released. It is a programming language with a syntax inspired by French.

Parrot 0.5.3 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: documentation updates, IMCC memory leak fixes and cleanups, the reimplementation of some language implementations using PCT, the rebranding of the 'perl6' language implementation to Rakudo, plus other bug fixes and changes.

GNU Guile 1.8.4 has been released. Guile is a Scheme interpreter available as a library, designed for embedding within other applications.

This release includes: a number of bug fixes, SRFI 69 support, documentation updates, and other changes.

Objective Caml 3.10.2 Release Candidate 1 has been released. Objective Caml is a statically typed, strictly evaluated descendant of ML, offering object-oriented, functional and imperative features.

This release candidate includes several bug fixes.

High Level Assembly v1.101 has been released. HLA adds high-level language syntax and constructs to x86 assembly.

This release includes: support for the new HLA stdlib v3.1, and documentation updates.

Digital Mars D 2.011 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: standard library updates and additions; the addition of std.xml, std.complex, std.iterator, std.c.linux.tipc and std.c.linux.termios; the addition of the 'nothrow' keyword; re-enabled auto interfaces; bug fixes; and other changes.

Digital Mars D 1.027 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: re-enabled auto interfaces, and bug fixes.

Ctalk 0.0.43a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: improved instance and class variable definition using class constructors, improved expression analysis, and bug fixes.

Roadsend PHP 2.9.5 has been released. It is a multi-platform, open source compiler capable of creating native binaries from PHP source code.

This release includes: the partial implementation of the sockets extension, build system fixes, runtime and FastCGI backend optimizations, bug fixes, and other changes.

The February 18, 2008 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion in the Python community.

nwcc 0.7.5 has been released. nwcc is a portable C compiler targeting a variety of systems.

This release includes: support for position-independent code and thread-local storage on x86, x86-64 and SPARC, and bug fixes.

Squirrel 2.2 has been released. Squirrel is a lightweight, embeddable language with a C-like syntax which offers higher-order functions, delegation, tail recursion, generators, exception handling, automated memory management, and more.

This release includes: the addition of enums and constants, support for default parameters, support for octal literals, bug fixes, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-02-17 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 improvements, new primitive actions, an update to the bas7.sd7 example program, bug fixes, and other changes.

The 5th European Lisp Workshop has put out a call for papers. "This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based languages in research, industry and education."

The submission deadline is May 4, 2008. The workshop will be held on July 7, 2008, in Paphos, Cyprus.

JRuby 1.1RC2 has been released. JRuby is a Ruby interpreter written in Java.

This release includes: memory-related improvements for JIT'ed methods, an I/O refactoring, bug fixes, and other changes.

Python 2.5.2 (Release Candidate 1) has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release candidate includes bug fixes.