PLNews: Programming Language News

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.

It has been announced that slides are now available for most of the presentations of Smalltalk Solutions 2008.

The June 24 to July 1, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Caml community.

Tcl/Tk 8.5.3 has been released. Tcl is a dynamic, cross-platform scripting language.

This release includes: improved DTrace support on Solaris, bug fixes, and other changes.

C Like Interpreted Script 0.9.0 has been released. It is an interpreted, C-like programming language.

CHICKEN 3.3.0 has been released. CHICKEN is a portable Scheme compiler that emits C code.

This release includes: the movement of port-related procedures to the new 'ports' unit, library bug fixes, and build system fixes.

Ctalk 0.0.59a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes improvements to the evaluation of method arguments.

dfsch 0.2.1 has been released. It is a programming language drawing mainly from R5RS Scheme and Common Lisp.

This release includes: support for additional numeric types, support for object properties, support for custom hash types, and other changes.

Vala 0.3.4 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: improvements to the D-Bus client and service support, basic support for detailed signals, checking of printf argument types, new bindings, bug fixes, and other changes.

GCC Unified Parallel C 4.2.3.3 has been released. GCC UPC adds support for Unified Parallel C to the GNU Compiler Collection.

This release includes: an update to GCC 4.2.3, bug fixes, and other changes.

amforth 2.8 has been released. It is a Forth implementation for the AVR ATmega microcontroller family.

This release includes: the movement of the serial interface words to the application dictionary, a sieve benchmark example, bug fixes, and other changes.

LispForum has been announced. It is a website with discussion forums dedicated to various Lisp-related topics.

B-Prolog 7.1 has been released. B-Prolog is a Prolog implementation with extensions for concurrency, constraints, interfacing with C and Java, and interactive graphics.

This release includes: performance improvements; improved memory management; new propagators for non-linear, global and disjunctive constraints; new examples; bug fixes; and other changes.