PLNews: Programming Language News

Seed7 2008-06-22 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: new example programs and test cases, compiler support for optionally generating code without range checks, improved handling of functions returning references to existing objects, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next FringeDC formal meeting will be held on July 12, 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.

Ctalk 0.0.58a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: improved handling of unterminated strings and character escape sequences, improvements with the use of objects with functions that take a variable number of arguments, more example programs, and other changes.

PLT Scheme v4.0.1 has been released. PLT Scheme is a family of Scheme implementations, including DrScheme and MzScheme.

This release includes bug fixes.

Parrot 0.6.3 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: improvements to the Cardinal, Chitchat, Pheme, Pynie, Rakudo, Squak and Tcl language implementations; the addition of a NQP 'return' statement and ?? !! ternary operator; documentation updates; bug fixes; and other changes.

The June 18, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Haskell community.

Excelsior JET 6.4 has been released. Excelsior JET is a Java implementation including support for ahead-of-time compilation.

This release includes: support for scrambling program data and resources, optimization improvements, faster ahead-of-time and just-in-time compilation, and other changes.

Digital Mars D 1.031 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 addition of the version identifier D_PIC when the -fPIC switch is used, and bug fixes.

Digital Mars D 2.015 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: function template return type deduction, support for template alias arguments that are literals, bug fixes, and other changes.

CACAO 0.99.1 has been released. CACAO is a portable, open source Java virtual machine.

This release includes bug fixes.

Ctpp 1.0.35 has been released. It is a preprocessor for Ctalk, an object-oriented extension of C.

This release includes improved handling of unterminated character strings and mismatched escape sequences.

SWI-Prolog 5.6.56 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: garbage collector improvements, support for processing files in limited space using DCGs, performance improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.8.3 has been released. GHC is a portable, open-source, optimising Haskell 98 implementation.

This release includes: improved ghci filename completion, library updates, ghc-pkg enhancements, bug fixes, and other changes.

Avian 0.1.1 has been released."Avian is a lightweight virtual machine and class library designed to provide a useful subset of Java's features, suitable for building self-contained applications."

This release includes support for running in interpreted mode on Mac OS X PPC systems, and bug fixes.

NASM 2.03.01 has been released. NASM is a portable x86-32 and x86-64 assembler, supporting a variety of platforms and object file formats.

This release includes bug fixes.

The June 10 to 17, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Caml community.

Wrapl 0.9.4 has been released. "Wrapl is a high level, dynamically typed interpreted programming language."

newLISP 9.3.16 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes documentation updates and bug fixes.

Ypsilon 0.9.5 beta has been released. Ypsilon is a R6RS Scheme implementation, optimized for multi-core CPU systems.

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