[Cocom-general] The new releases of COCOM toolset (0.995) and DINO (0.54) are available now.

[Vladimir M. <vma...@us...>]

  The new releases of COCOM toolset and interpreter of the programming
language DINO are available now at http://cocom.sourceforge.net/index.html.

  The major differences of COCOM of version 0.995 from the previous
version 0.993 are the following:

* Ammunition:
   o Package arithm works with numbers with bases upto 35.  New tests
     have been added.
   o Earley parser is able to use rules costs to chose the translation
     with minimal cost.  Some bugs are fixed.  New tests have been
     added.
  
* MSTA has an additional error recovery with minimal cost.  New tests
  have been added.

* Dino.
   o Minor changes in the language (few new operators and special
     method `destroy').
   o New functions.
   o New package to work with sockets.
   o Many fixed bugs.
   o The sped up interpreter (upto 50%).
   o Comparison tests with perl, python, tcl, awk.
   o Many new tests have been added.
   o Improved documentation.
    
* OKA.  The problem of possible incorrect automata generation because
  of wrong distribution of units to automata and the construction
  `exclusion' has been fixed.

* Cocom and Dino have an additional distribution format `rpm'.
  
  Thank everybody who sent comments about COCOM and messages about
bugs in COCOM.

Vladimir Makarov