The Moby Programming Language


Recent News

May 12, 2005
Version 0.9.18 is now available for download. This version contains bug fixes for typechecking of modules and in the optimizer.

May 3, 2005
Version 0.9.17 is now available for download. This version contains a first-cut implementation of parameterized modules (thanks to Mike Rainey). There are still some implementation issues related to the interaction of classes and functors and type revelations are not yet implemented.

April 30, 2005
Version 0.9.16 is now available for download. This version contains more bug fixes. It also has preliminary support for callbacks (there are still some GC issues to work out).

April 28, 2005
Version 0.9.15 is now available for download. This version contains bug fixes.

April 18, 2005
Version 0.9.14 is now available for download. This version requires SML/NJ 110.53 (because of MLRISC fixes) and contains extensive bug fixes.

November 17, 2004
Version 0.9.13 is now available for download. This version fixes a bug in register allocation and includes some changes that were left out of 0.9.12 by mistake.

November 11, 2004
Version 0.9.12 is now available for download. This version contains some internal changes to better support work on array-bounds check elimination.

October 26, 2004
Version 0.9.11 is now available for download. This version contains many bug fixes and is getting close to being useful. In addition, it includes additional utility functions in the Basis library, sytax for list expressions, substantial work on the PPC port (although it is not yet complete), partial support for heap-allocated activation records, and code generation for callbacks (runtime system support is still missing).

June 23, 2004
Version 0.9.10 is now available for download. This version includes further work on callbacks, a new uncallable-function elimination phase in the optimizer, code cleanup in the typechecker, and some additional documentation.

May 17, 2004
Version 0.9.9 is now available for download. The 0.9.8 bundle was missing some generated files, which were necessary for building the system. We have also started to implement support for using Moby functions as callbacks in C libraries.

April 27, 2004
Version 0.9.8 is now available for download. Changes include additional primops to support floating-point conversions, support for tuple types in the gen-mbi tool and MBI pickle format, additional Basis functions, and several bug fixes.

April 18, 2004
Version 0.9.7 is now available for download. Changes include a number of bug fixes, preliminary support for const definitions in MBI files, improvements to the gen-mbi tool, and some additions to the Basis library.


Last modified: May 12, 2005.
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