PLNews: Programming Language News

It has been announced that the next pyCologne meeting will be held on March 12, 2008.

Digital Mars D 2.012 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: the removal of std.math2, a compile time error for comparing class types against null, support for struct destructors and postblits, the addition of predefined version(unittest), standard library improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

Digital Mars D 1.028 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: a compile time error for comparing class types against null, and bug fixes.

newLISP 9.3.3 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: new options for 'bind' and 'search', fixed Solaris compilation, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the London Scala Users Group will be held on March 12, 2008.

The March 9, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Haskell community.

It has been announced that the next Leipzig Python User Group meeting will be held on March 11, 2008.

Blue 1.4.3 has been released. Blue is a portable, high-level, dynamic programming language.

This release includes: speed and reliability improvements, refactored attributes and dictionaries, support for medium-grained mutexes, a refactoring of the backtrace mechanism, and other changes.

Gecode 2.1.1 has been released. It is "an open, free, portable, accessible, and efficient environment for developing constraint-based systems and applications."

This release includes bug fixes.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0a has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: support for Seaside, the gst-remote tool for remotely controlling a GNU Smalltalk VM via a TCP socket, unbuffered sockets support, and other changes.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0.2 has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: improved GNUPlot bindings, a variety of new methods, bug fixes, and other changes.

Invocation Programming Language 1.0.1 has been released. It is an implementation of a concurrent programming language described in 'Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression', by Karl Fant.

This is the initial public release.

Mono 1.9.0 Preview 4 has been released. Mono is a portable, open source .NET CLI implementation.

It has been announced that the next London Ruby Users Group meeting will be held on March 10, 2008.

It has been announced that the next Cape Town Ruby Brigade meeting will be held on March 12, 2008.

Algol 68 Genie Mark 11.1 has been released. It is an open source Algol 68 interpreter.

This release includes: the addition of an HTML translation of the Algol 68 Revised Report to the documentation; and the addition of RERUN, RESET and RESTART options to the monitor.

It has been announced that the next Python Ireland meeting will be held on March 12, 2008.

It has been announced that the next Michigan Python Users Group meeting will be held on March 6, 2008.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on March 18, 2008.

Ruby 1.8.6-p114 and 1.8.5-p115 have been released. Ruby is a dynamic, cross-platform, object-oriented language.

These releases includes a WEBrick security fix.