Monday, August 09, 2004

From Lambda the Ultimate: Breve is a free software package which makes it easy to build 3D simulations of decentralized systems and artificial life. Users define the behaviors of agents in a 3D world and observe how they interact. breve includes physical simulation and collision detection so you can simulate realistic creatures, and an OpenGL display engine so you can visualize your simulated worlds. 10:20:24 AM

Slate 0.3 has been released. This is the native C version, with the Common Lisp version no longer supported. Slate is a language which looks similar to Smalltalk but uses a prototype based object system with multi-method dispatch. 10:10:43 AM

Steve Dekorte, author of the Io Programming Language, has released TwinDB. This is an embedded key/value database based on BerkeleyDB. It adds security from database corruption on top of the non-transactional version of BerkeleyDB. Licensed under the Revised BSD license. 10:08:23 AM