PLNews: Programming Language News

The March 23, 2008 edition of Tcl-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Tcl community.

It has been announced that the next St. Louis Lisp User's Group meeting will be held on March 28, 2008.

Blue 1.5.1 has been released. Blue is a portable, high-level, dynamic programming language.

This release includes: array-related improvements and bug fixes.

It has been announced that an APL meeting will be held in Hannover, Germany on June 12 and 13, 2008.

It has been announced that registration is now open for the 1st European Lisp Symposium. The symposium will be held in Bordeaux, France, on May 22 and 23, 2008.

MCL 5.2 has been released. It is a Common Lisp implementation for the Macintosh.

It has been announced that the new REBOL 3 homepage is now accessible. REBOL is a dynamic, multi-paradigm language, with emphasis placed on networked and distributed computing.

Disciplined Disciple Compiler Alpha 1 has been released. "Disciple is an explicitly lazy dialect of Haskell which supports destructive update, computational effects, type directed field projections and some other useful things."

This is the initial alpha release of DDC.

Gambit-C v4.2.5 has been released. Gambit-C includes a Scheme interpreter, and a Scheme compiler that emits portable C code.

This release includes: build system improvements, working -prelude and -postlude options, the removal of a non-ASCII character from lib/_num.scm, and other changes.

Ctalk 0.0.45a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: improved evaluation of function parameters, template translation of C functions to methods, bug fixes, and other changes.

ClearLisp 1.1 has been released. It is a Common Lisp interpreter for .NET.

This release includes: additions to the standard library, bug fixes, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-03-19 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: the addition of functions to the scanstri.s7i library, improved support for the itf_eq and itf_ne primitive actions, improved handling of bitsets with negative elements, improvements to the BASIC interpreter example program, and other changes.

cfunge 0.2.0 has been released. It is a Befunge98 interpreter.

This release includes: support for fingerprints, support for concurrency, a sandbox mode, bug fixes, and other changes.

JRuby 1.1RC3 has been released. JRuby is a Ruby interpreter written in Java.

This release candidates includes: a number of bug fixes, performance improvements, and other changes.

Parrot 0.6.0 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: an updated PMC implementation; a cleanup of the IMCC documentation; updates and improvements to the C99, lolcode, Rakudo Lua, Cardinal, Pheme, EcmaScript, Tcl, Eclectus and WMLScript implementations; other changes and bug fixes.

It has been announced that the next FringeDC meeting will be held on March 22, 2008. 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.

Kite 1.0a4 has been released. Kite is a small, object-oriented language.

This release includes: the re-addition of TCP/IP socket support to the library, basic POSIX signal handling support, improved memory management, and other changes.

JCPP 1.0.8 has been released. It is a C preprocessor implemented in Java.

This release includes: improved error recovery, and initial support for a pass-through mode for non-C-like text.

Neko 1.7.0 has been released. Neko is a high-level, dynamically typed intermediate language designed to offer a common runtime for different languages.

This release includes: reduced debug information memory size, a threaded interpreter, the addition of performance statistics hooks, bug fixes, and other changes.

newLISP 9.3.4 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: a quicker way to create dictionaries, the addition of 'read-expr', bug fixes, and other changes.