PLNews: Programming Language News

The November 11 to 18, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the OCaml community.

It has been announced that the next Hartford Ruby Brigade meeting will be held on November 24, 2008.

EiffelStudio 6.3.7.5660 has been released. EiffelStudio is a cross-platform Eiffel implementation and development environment.

This release includes: .NET debugger fixes, generic conformance when using attached types, bug fixes and other changes.

ActivePython 2.6.0.0 has been released. ActivePython is a binary distribution of Python from ActiveState, supporting AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows.

This release is based on Python 2.6.0.

The November 17, 2008 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Python community.

The November 15, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Haskell community.

Seed7 2008-11-16 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: improved support for Borland C++, documentation updates, the removal of the obsolete << and >> operators for file I/O, and other changes.

TinyCOBOL 0.64 has been released. It is an open source COBOL compiler.

This release includes bug fixes and other improvements.

Flat Assembler 1.67.29 has been released. It is an x86 and x86-64 assembler.

This release includes: support for optionally outputting symbolic information, bug fixes, and other changes.

Ctalk 0.0.87a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes compatibility and bug fixes.

tecomp 0.5 has been released. It is an open source, cross-platform Eiffel compiler.

This release includes: the implementation of TUPLEs, the inheritance of class invariants, the MATH_CONSTANT class, and other changes.

Wirbel 0.1.10 has been released. It is a compiled language with syntax and semantics similar to those of Python.

This release includes: support for using dollar strings to embed variables, and the stripping of binaries when using optimization.

It has been announced that the next Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group meeting will be held on November 27, 2008. Guillaume Cartier will be releasing a closed beta of the Gambit-based version of JazzScheme to the user group participants.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on November 18, 2008. Gryphon Shafer will be discussing the building of a mod_perl-based MVC framework.

IBM Workstation APL2 for Multiplatforms Version 2.0 Service Level 13 has been released.

This release includes: the new ROUNDC external function for high-performance commercial rounding, a function line length limit increase to 32767, updates to the Windows version, improved performance accessing linefeed-delimited files, and other changes.

Berkeley UPC 2.8.0 has been released. UPC is an extension to C for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, providing a uniform programming model for both shared and distributed memory hardware.

This release includes: native support for IBM BlueGene/P, caching of local memory registration by the portals network, improved IBM LAPI support, improved Myrinet GM support, improved support for the XLC compilers on Linux, documentation updates, experimental support for ARM processors, bug fixes, and other changes.

C++Script 0.9.0 has been released. C++Script is an extension to C++, adding support for dynamic types, garbage collection, closures, functors, and other features.

The October 21 to November 11, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the OCaml community.

IKVM 0.38 Release Candidate 2 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release candidate includes fixes.

Ctalk 0.0.86a has been released. Ctalk is an object-oriented extension to C.

This release includes performance improvements, and bug fixes.