PLNews: Programming Language News

Digital Mars D 1.032 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: .__vptr and .__monitor properties for class objects, and bug fixes.

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

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

Seed7 2008-07-07 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: documentation updates, example program improvements, the renaming of some primitive actions and functions, and other changes.

Logtalk 2.32.1 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: changes to the representation of the runtime tables for loaded entities; updated support for SWI-Prolog, CxProlog, K-Prolog and B-Prolog; documentation updates; bug fixes; and other changes.

newLISP 9.4.2 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes bug fixes.

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

Ctalk 0.0.60a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: improved expression analysis, and bug fixes.

GNU CLISP 2.46 has been released. It is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: improved support for 64-bit platforms, the addition of OS:ERRNO and OS:STRERROR to the syscalls module, bug fixes, and other changes.

Frink 2008-07-03 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 bug fixes.

newLISP 9.4.1 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: reference passing improvements, memory leak fixes, and formatting updates to the manual.

PLT Scheme v4.0.3 has been released. PLT Scheme is a family of Scheme implementations, including DrScheme and MzScheme.

This release includes a fix for a bug caused slow installation of PLaneT packages.

The July 2, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Haskell community.

The July 2, 2008 edition of the Tcl-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Tcl community.

Frink 2008-07-03 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 bug fixes.

Kite 1.0b3 has been released. Kite is a small, object-oriented language.

This release includes: support for regular expressions, support for anonymous recursive functions, improved debugging support, more reliable exception handling, and other changes.

Sleep 2.1 Update 1 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: performance improvements, bug fixes, improved compile-time error checking, and other changes.

eTcl 1.0-rc29 has been released. eTcl is a standalone, single-executable distribution of Tcl, supporting a number of platforms and including several popular extensions.

This release includes: the use of Tcl/Tk 8.5.3, new commands in the wce package, support for anti-aliased lines in Pixane, applets to wrap sources into a standalone executable, and other changes.

newLISP 9.4.0 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: a new API for hash-like dictionary access, the new Cilk API, improved support for reference passing, newLISP-GS improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

A new version of Allegro CL 8.1 Express has been released. Allegro CL is a Common Lisp development system, supporting a number of platforms.

This release includes: a larger maximum heap size of 60 MB, initial license retrieval support, updater improvements, and other changes.