[ats-lang-users] ATS2-0.3.9 released

[Hongwei Xi <hw...@bu...>]

Hi,

I am pleased to announce the release of ATS2-0.3.9.

This is the 46th release of ATS2, the successor of the
ATS programming language. The compiler for ATS2 is given
the name ATS/Positats, ATS2/Postiats or simply Postiats.

The official website for ATS is:

http://www.ats-lang.org

ATS-Postiats is hosted at github:

https://github.com/githwxi/ATS-Postiats

Major releases of ATS2 are available at:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ats2-lang/

Major releases of external packages for ATS2 are available at:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ats2-lang-contrib/

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The following packages are included in this release:

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ATS2-Postiats-0.3.9.tgz # requiring GMP
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MD5: 89896a2ea58b07c2c409cd4297891aa1
SHA1: e350b7872cbac5ab1c3a539c7e35d176e39eb378
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ATS2-Postiats-contrib-0.3.9.tgz # contributed packages
ATS2-Postiats-include-0.3.9.tgz # CATS-files w/ MIT license.

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I have included ATS2-Postiats-contrib (instead of releasing
it separately). From this point on, I will gradually merge parts
of ATS2-Postiats-contrib into ATS2-Postiats, and rely on external
package management systems (e.g., npm) to handle those that are
not selected for merging.

After installing ATS-Postiats-include, one can compile the C code
generated from ATS source without installing the ATS compiler. So
a convenient way to distribute software written in ATS is to simply
release the C code generated from the ATS source.

Please see below for some major additions and changes since the last
release (ATS2-0.3.8).

Cheers,

--Hongwei

Computer Science Department
Boston University
111 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215

Email: hw...@cs...
Url: http://www.cs.bu.edu/~hwxi
Tel: +1 617 358 2511 (office)
Fax: +1 617 353 6457 (department)

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Here is a list of major additions and changes since the last release:

1. Improving libatscc/libatscc2js regarding matrixref and matrix0
2. Improving doc/BOOK/ATS2FUNCRASH by tidying-up and fixing errors
3. Adding some examples in ATS-Tutoriats demonstrating ATS+ReactJS
    and ATS+React-Native
4. Adding basic programming support for parallelized stream-mapfold:
    ${PATSHOME}/libats/BUCS320/StreamPar (stream-processing)
    ${PATSHOME}/libats/BUCS520/StreamPar (linear-stream-processing)
5. Adding basic programming support for recursive directory-traversal:
    ${PATSHOME}/npm-utils/contrib/libats-hwxi/find_cli
6. Moving most higher-order functions from ATSPRE to ATSLIB/ML/atspre.
    This is a pervasive change, triggering a lot of (minor) fixes!
7. Rewriting several stream_vt functions to make them tail-recursive.
8. Moving ATSPRE/fcontainer and ATSPRE/giterator into libats/ATS2
9. Finishing EFFECTIVATS/SteamPar on streamization and stream-processing
    in parallel.
10. Starting the ATS-CodeBook project (at http://github.com/ats-lang):
     Hello, HX-intinf, ReadFromSTDIN, ReadFromSTDIN2, ReadFromSTDIN3, and
     WordFrqncyCount