PLNews: Programming Language News

The April 1 to 8, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as: the release of CamlPy 0.1, Erlang-style bitstrings for OCaml, the release of Ocsigen 1.0.0, and more.

Vala 0.2.0 has been released. Vala "aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C." It offers features such as: interfaces, properties, lambda expressions, local variable type inference, and more.

This release includes: support for nested namespaces, support for static constructors, a change to the syntax for default values of properties, a --verbose command line option, improved pointer support, new and updated library bindings, bug fixes, and other changes.

Pash has been announced. It is a portable, open source Windows PowerShell reimplementation.

The April 7, 2008 edition of This Week in Ruby is now available. It is a summary of recent discussions and developments within the Ruby community.

The April 7, 2008 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Python community.

This edition covers topics such as: the release of Python 2.6a2 and 3.0a4, adding methods to a single instance, incorrect usage of the try/finally construct, and more.

It has been announced that the next Leipzig Python User Group meeting will be held on April 8, 2008.

Spyke has been announced. It is a Python-to-C compiler.

Cat 1.0 beta 1 has been released. Cat is a functional, stack-based programming language inspired by Joy.

This release includes: the replacement of some predefined primitives with library functions, tail-call optimization, a #trace metacommand, code cleanups, the removal of infinite lists, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-04-06 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: support for bitLength, lowestSetBit, <<, <<:=, >> and >>:= for the integer and bigInteger types; a change in the priority of the << and >> operators; documentation updates; a new constructor for complex numbers from a float; updates to the BASIC interpreter example program; bug fixes; and other changes.

Ctalk 0.0.47a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: performance improvements, support for using C variables and functions within complex object expressions, and bug fixes.

IKVM 0.36 Update 1 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes: improved error handling for the ikvmc -reference option; optimized code generation for the lcmp, fcmp, dcmp and shift opcodes; field/method/parameter annotation support for .NET types; the implementation of SocketOptions.IP_MULTICAST_IF and SocketOptions.IP_MULTICAST_IF2; bug fixes; and other changes.

haXe 1.19 has been released. haXe is a high-level, object-oriented language for developing Web sites and Web applications.

This release includes: the addition of haxe.FastList, optimizations, bug fixes, and other changes.

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

This release includes: performance improvements, support for the compilation of Ruby to Java bytecode, refactoring of the IO implementation, reduced memory consumption, compatibility fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that a Ruby meeting will be held in Munich, Germany on April 9, 2008.

It has been announced that the next Phoenix Ruby User Group meeting will be held on April 14, 2008.

The new tinypy website at tinypy.org has been announced. tinypy is a small implementation of a subset of Python.

Gambas 2.5 has been released. Gambas is a development environment and BASIC-like language implementation with object-oriented extensions.

This release includes: updated Spanish translations, IDE improvements, and other changes.

Frink 2008-03-29 has been released. Frink is a language which allows for units of measurement to be tracked throughout calculations to help ensure correct answers.

This release includes: efficient functions for calculating binomial coefficients, the suggestion of more conversion factors upon an invalid conversion, and fixed historical British currency conversions.

JALv2 2.4c 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: the addition of several operator optimizations, the addition of pragma documentation, and a 16-bit lookup table generation bug fix.

amforth 2.7 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the AVR ATmega microcontroller family.

This release includes: a new assembler, packaging changes, bug fixes, and other changes.