PLNews: Programming Language News

SigScheme 0.8.1 has been released. It is a small Scheme interpreter, suitable for embedded use.

This release includes: the removal of the "\|" escape sequence, support for OpenBSD PowerPC and x86_64 in libgcroots, build fixes, memory leak and alignment fixes, and other changes.

Mumps Compiler 10.8 has been released. It is a multi-platform compiler for a subset of the Mumps language.

This release includes bug fixes and enhancements.

C Like Interpreted Script 0.5 has been released. It is an interpreted, C-like programming language.

The March 29, 2008 edition of the Tcl-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Tcl community.

Sleep 2.1-beta 21 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: a ? command to evaluate predicates in the Sleep console, &skip and &consume refer to the same function; the addition of &readAsObject and &writeAsObject to read and write serialized Java objects; changes to the semantics of fork; bug fixes; and other changes.

HLA v1.102 beta has been released. HLA adds high-level language syntax and constructs to x86 assembly.

This release includes: changes to the behaviour of the FADD(), FSUB(), FSUBR(), FMUL(), FDIV() and FDIVR() instructions; the generation of hexadecimal encodings for almost all instructions; new command line parameters for controlling the formatting of output files; and other changes.

ALA7 has been announced. "ALA7 is a programing language with polymorphic lists, built in object reference counting and simplified access to machine code."

Excelsior JET 6.0 Maintenance Pack 1 has been released. Excelsior JET is a Java implementation including support for ahead-of-time compilation.

This maintenance pack includes a number of bug fixes.

LispWorks 5.1 has been released. LispWorks is an ANSI Common Lisp implementation supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and UNIX.

This release includes: support for LispWorks as a dynamic library, a new profiling API, IDE improvements, improved AMOP compliance, 64-bit Cocoa on Leopard, Vista-related improvements, OLE embedding support, bug fixes, and other changes.

Tcl/Tk 8.5.2 RC 2 has been released. Tcl is a dynamic, cross-platform scripting language.

This release includes changes to the Ttk_* C functions.

Ctpp 1.0.29 has been released. It is a preprocessor for Ctalk, an object-oriented extension of C.

This release includes GNU C compatibility fixes for Solaris 10.

newLISP 9.3.5 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: improved namespace hashing, support for the precompilation of regex patterns, bug fixes, and other changes.

Tom 2.6 Release Candidate has been released. It is "an extension of Java designed to manipulate tree structures and XML documents."

It has been announced that Planet D has moved to http://planet.dsource.org. It is a feed aggregator drawing from D-related blogs.

It has been announced that the next Hamburg Lisp Meeting will be held on March 26, 2008.

JALv2 2.4b has been released. It extends Just Another Language with more variable types, a CASE statement, support for cooperative multitasking, and other features.

This release includes: new 'exit loop' and 'repeat until' constructs, bug fixes, and other changes.

The March 18 to 25, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Caml community.

This edition covers: the NW Functional Programming Interest Group, the Lego Mindstorm Library v0.5 release, the long-term storage of OCaml values, and more.

haXe 2.0 has been announced. haXe is a high-level, object-oriented language for developing Web sites and Web applications.

haXe 2.0 is planned for after the haXe 1.19 release. A list of change proposals is available.

CHICKEN 3.1.0 has been released. CHICKEN is a portable Scheme compiler that emits C code.

This release includes: improved MinGW support, the use of PCRE 7.6 by the regex unit, additions and fixes to the posix unit, additions and fixes to the hashtable functions in the extras unit, and other changes.

EiffelStudio 6.2.7.2839 has been released. EiffelStudio is a cross-platform Eiffel implementation and development environment.

This development release includes: improved compiler code generation, support for a new ISE_USER_FILES environment variable, bug fixes, and other changes.