PLNews: Programming Language News

It has been announced that the Cobra December 2008 Update is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Cobra community. Cobra is a high-level language for .NET, including features such as generics, contracts, compile-time type inference, exception handling, garbage collection, and more.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.24 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR for accessing the underlying data vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY, support for the non-standard :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS keyword argument for DIRECTORY, speed optimizations, bug fixes, and other changes.

Eagle 1.0.3285.13304 has been released. Eagle is an implementation of Tcl for the .NET CLR.

Gambit-C v4.4.0 has been released. Gambit-C includes a Scheme interpreter, and a Scheme compiler that emits portable C code.

This release includes: documentation updates, the addition and generalization of some REPL comma commands, installation improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

R 2.8.1 has been released. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.

This release includes: sum() support for 'difftime' objects, better handling of malformed DESCRIPTION files by installed.packages(), qt() that works for 0 < df < 1, a 'title.col' argument for legend(), bug fixes, and other changes.

BBC BASIC for Windows 5.90a has been released. It is a BBC BASIC implementation for Windows systems.

This release includes: performance improvements, support for Unicode text output, IDE improvements, and other changes.

Python 2.5.4 (final) has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release includes bug fixes.

Python 2.4.6 (final) has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release includes security fixes.

The December 24, 2008 and December 29, 2008 editions of Python-URL! are now available. Python-URL! summarises recent developments within the Python community.

The December 16 to 30, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Caml community.

The December 25, 2008 and the January 3, 2009 editions of the Haskell Weekly News are now availalble. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Haskell community.

Scala 2.7.3 RC1 has been released. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional support.

This release includes: ScalaSwing fixes and improvements, performance improvements, improved JVM 1.4 support, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Phoenix Ruby User Group meeting will be held on January 12, 2009.

It has been announced that the January 2009 issue of GroovyMag is now available. GroovyMag is a magazine focusing on Groovy. Groovy is a dynamic, object-oriented language for the Java Platform.

The December 10 to 17, 2008 edition of the Common Lisp Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments, software releases and discussion within the Common Lisp community.

tecomp 0.6.1 has been released. It is an open source, cross-platform Eiffel compiler.

This release includes a makefile bug fix.

Fawlty Language 0.73 has been released. It is an array-oriented language, with a syntax almost identical to that of the Interactive Data Language.

This release includes updates to the LAPACK interface, and bug fixes.

It has been announced that the source code to the historic ETH Zurich Multipass Modula-2 compiler is now available.

Parrot 0.8.2 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: the addition of the 'capture_lex' opcode; automatic resume for nonfatal exceptions; the addition of multidispatch caching support; performance improvements; improvements to the IMCC, PCT, PGE and PIRC compilers; improvements to the Rakudo, Lua, Pipp and Ecmascript language implementations; bug fixes; and other changes.

eTcl 1.0.0 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: code cleanups, bug fixes, extensions to the GPS API for Windows Mobile, and other changes.