PLNews: Programming Language News

Sleep 2.1-u3 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: debug messages providing more detail on proxy objects, ordered hashes that no longer serialize their miss and remove policies, the ability of the cast function to create empty arrays, bug fixes and other changes.

Ctalk 0.0.75a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes: improved object creation and deletion, updated example programs, improved support for inline method calls, improvements to the Collection class API, and other changes.

Dolphin Next Generation has been announced. It will be the next version of Dolphin Smalltalk, developed as a partnership between Object Arts and Lesser Software.

The planned features include: performance improvements, a multi-threaded VM, Unicode support, support for Smalltalk Link Libraries, 64-bit support, and more.

It has been announced that an election will be held to select a new Scheme Language Steering Committee.

The September 23, 2008 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Python community.

EiffelStudio 6.3.7.4757 has been released. EiffelStudio is a cross-platform Eiffel implementation and development environment.

This release includes: editor improvements and bug fixes.

The September 16 to 23, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Caml community.

It has been announced that registration is now open for the Great Lakes Ruby Bash. It is a one-day Ruby conference being held on October 11, 2008, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

REALbasic 2008 Release 4 has been released. REALbasic is an object-oriented BASIC dialect and development environment, supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

This release includes: support for tab stops, development environment improvements, new warnings, support for constants in declarations, support for digitally signing applications on Mac OS X, bug fixes, and other changes.

Blue 1.6.6 has been released. Blue is a portable, high-level, dynamic programming language.

This release includes: string and number conversion methods, syntax checking, bug fixes, and other changes.

Shed Skin 0.0.29 has been released. Shed Skin is an experimental Python compiler that emits C++ code.

This release includes: improvements to the datetime module, improved inheritance support, portability updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

Scala 2.7.2 RC2 has been released. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional support.

Seed7 2008-09-21 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, improvements to the bas7.sd7 example program, num-lock support for the X11 keyboard driver, the renaming of some primitive actions, new functions in the progs.s7i library, the renaming of the is_var function to isVar, and other changes.

The September 20, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Haskell community.

Ctalk 0.0.74a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes internal improvements and bug fixes.

It has been announced that Scheme Request for Implementation 98: 'An interface to access environment variables.' has entered 'final' status.

Parrot 0.7.1 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: preliminary support for resumable exceptions, updates to the Rakudo (Perl 6) and Cardinal (Ruby) language implementations, documentation updates and cleanups, and other changes.

Python 3.0rc1 has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release includes: the addition of PyObject_Bytes and PyBytes_FromObject to the C API, the removal of the bsddb module from the standard library, bug fixes, build fixes, and other changes.

Python 2.6rc2 has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release includes bug fixes.

WishLisp 0.0.1.3.6 has been released. It is a Lisp interpreter implemented in C#.

This release includes: the release of the source code under the MIT license, the addition of eql and progn functions, bug fixes, and other changes.