[pure-lang-users] ANN: Pure 0.5 released

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Hi everybody,

Pure 0.5 is out, grab it here while it's hot:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=226193

Also have a look at the release notes to find out what's new:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=226193&release_id=621635 


Executive summary: This release sports LLVM 2.3 support and a bunch of 
bug fixes and improvements in the language, the standard library and the 
code generator. I.e.: lots of good new stuff, a must have! :)

Special thanks are due to Jiri Spitz who ported the Q container data 
structures to Pure, and to Rooslan S. Khayrov for his patches to make 
Pure work with LLVM 2.3.

Thanks also to Alvaro Castro Castilla, Toni Graffy and Ryan Schmidt for 
maintaining the Gentoo, openSUSE and MacPorts packages, respectively. I 
hope you'll find the time to update the packages for the latest release 
asap. ;-)

More acknowledgments can be found in the release notes. Also, make sure 
you don't miss Libor Spacek's Mayan calendar counting the days until 
doomsday, err, end of the cycle, and his faster-than-light n-queens 
algorithm. (To be found in examples/libor in the sources.)

Last but not least, the new math.pure standard library module turns Pure 
into a useful desktop calculator. Thanks to Eddie Rucker for helping 
testing that beast, and to John Cowan for pointing me to the right bits 
of IEEE 754 arcana!

Enjoy!
Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
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