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Ctalk 0.0.64a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes improved class variable expression analysis, and compatibility fixes for Solaris and DJGPP.

Blue 1.6.1 has been released. Blue is a portable, high-level, dynamic programming language.

This release includes: the addition of int, abs, round and trig methods to the number type; memory leak fixes; support for detecting and freeing cyclic references in lexical variables; bug fixes; and other changes.

Ruby 1.9.0-3 has been released. Ruby is a dynamic, cross-platform, object-oriented language.

Aspyct 0.9.2 has been released. It is a library that allows for aspect-oriented programming using Python.

This release includes: the addition of atPrint, afterPrint, afterCall, atRaise, beforeInit, afterInit, restoreInit functions; and bug fixes.

The 2008 Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop has put out a call for participation. The workshop will be held on September 26, 2008, in Victoria, Canada.

The 2008 International Conference on Logic Programming has put out a call for poster submissions. The abstract submission deadline is August 15, 2008, with the conference being held in Udine, Italy, from December 9 to 13, 2008.

Ctpp 1.0.38 has been released. It is a preprocessor for Ctalk, an object-oriented extension of C.

This release includes compatibility fixes for GCC on Solaris.

Wraith Scheme 1.33 has been released. It is an R5RS Scheme implementation for Mac OS X.

This release includes bug fixes and performance improvements.

REALbasic 2008 Release 3.1 has been released. REALbasic is an object-oriented BASIC dialect and development environment, supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

This release includes bug fixes.

It has been announced that Excelsior JET 3.6 has reached End-of-Life status. Users are recommended to upgrade to a more recent version.

The July 23, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now accessible. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Haskell community.

The July 15 to 22, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as: profiling OCaml using gprof, getting the name of the currently-executing function, and other changes.

Larceny 0.962 has been released. It is a multi-platform Scheme implementation that supports the IEEE/ANSI, R5RS, ERR5RS and R6RS standards.

This release includes bug fixes.

tecomp 0.2 has been released. It is an open source Eiffel compiler.

This release includes: an improved tutorial, support for Windows, user-defined expanded types, support for constrained generics, and other changes.

Ctalk 0.0.63a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes bug fixes.

Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 5.4 has been released. It is a shell scripting tutorial and reference focusing on Bash.

This release includes: seven new example scripts, clarification of certain sections, new material, and fixes.

Clue 0.3 has been released. It is a C compiler that targets high level languages such as JavaScript, Python, Perl and Lua.

This release includes support for Perl 5 and code cleanups.

Seed7 2008-07-20 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: a subrange type for the integer, char and enumeration types; documentation updates; updated example programs; bug fixes; and other changes.

JRuby 1.1.3 has been released. JRuby is a Ruby interpreter written in Java.

This release includes: improved interpreter performance, memory usage improvements, IO-related fixes, better debugging support, bug fixes, and other changes.

Python 3.0b2 has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release includes: exception tracebacks with support for exception chaining, traceback module support for chained exceptions, improvements to the gettext library, bug fixes, and other changes.