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This version is an update version to accompany release 0.5.0 of the orange2c package. It has a complete new source layout and the first beginnings of the IO framework. Additionally the thread support has been tested, extended and improved.

This version of orange2c - a compiler for the orange language - has a number of improvements, mainly severe bug fixes. It implements the macro system and contains a new dependency tracking tool. The code generated by this release is much more stable than from earlier versions, and the type checking conditions are saner.

At least I've manage to release a new version of the language spec. The type syntax has changed, and some other details of the language; new operators are added (e.g. idiv), some semantics changed (e.g. for loops), etc. I'm using a great new layout, which makes the spec much nicer to read :-)

I've just released version 0.0.5 of the orange2c compiler. this release adds a lot missing pieces of the language spec to the compiler, e.g. class variables/bindings, closures, static scoping (in closures), beside a number of runtime model changes. this release will be the last for this year.

i've just uploaded a new version of the language spec. it incorporates the last changes in the cvs, in a more handy format.

The third packaged release is out. This includes first runtime code. Even if still nearly not functional, the compiler compiles to first "real" C code (and produce real apps).

I had to rename the language, since there is another blue language around for some years. blue is now orange.

the first release of blue-c is out! the low version number reflects the preview character, since the compiler does not do any real work in the moment. it scans catalogs, source files, build abstract trees, internal type representations, etc. most of the semantic and type checking is done and first steps towards compilation into an intermediate abstract language done.

I've uploaded a new version of the blue language specification. It contains the new type specification, message call and method declaration syntax, and some other updates.

Finally I got it. First sources for the evolving compiler and the language spec are public. Check the CVS for latest stuff!

Hi to all who probably remember my plans for a new (and hopefully better) language. I finally managed to fix my plans to a degree that they can be open. Here they are. I'll publish a first draft of the language spec in the next days and hopefully a first cvs import of the alpha compiler frontend (lexer, parser, apt, type decl.)