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     <title>Introduction</title>
+    <para>This section is provided to show you some additional programming
+    tools for which instructions have not yet been created in the book or for
+    those that are not appropriate for the book. Note that these packages may
+    not have been tested by the BLFS team, but their mention here is meant to
+    be a convenient source of additional information.</para>
+    <para>
+      This section is provided to show you some additional programming
+      tools for which instructions have not yet been created in the book or for
+      those that are not appropriate for the book. Note that these packages may
+      not have been tested by the BLFS team, but their mention here is meant to
+      be a convenient source of additional information.
+    </para>
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     <title>Programming Frameworks, Languages and Compilers</title>
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       <title></title>
+      <para><application></application> This is the description.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url=""/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url=""/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application></application> This is the description.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url=""/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url=""/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
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       <title>A+</title>
+      <para><application>A+</application> is a powerful and efficient
+      programming language. It is freely available under the GNU General
+      Public License. It embodies a rich set of functions and operators, a
+      modern graphical user interface with many widgets and automatic
+      synchronization of widgets and variables, asynchronous execution of
+      functions associated with variables and events, dynamic loading of user
+      compiled subroutines, and many other features. Execution is by a rather
+      efficient interpreter. <application>A+</application> was created at
+      Morgan Stanley. Primarily used in a computationally-intensive business
+      environment, many critical applications written in
+      <application>A+</application> have withstood the demands of real world
+      developers over many years. Written in an interpreted language,
+      <application>A+</application> applications tend to be portable.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.aplusdev.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.aplusdev.org/Download/index.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>A+</application> is a powerful and efficient
+        programming language. It is freely available under the GNU General
+        Public License. It embodies a rich set of functions and operators, a
+        modern graphical user interface with many widgets and automatic
+        synchronization of widgets and variables, asynchronous execution of
+        functions associated with variables and events, dynamic loading of user
+        compiled subroutines, and many other features. Execution is by a rather
+        efficient interpreter. <application>A+</application> was created at
+        Morgan Stanley. Primarily used in a computationally-intensive business
+        environment, many critical applications written in
+        <application>A+</application> have withstood the demands of real world
+        developers over many years. Written in an interpreted language,
+        <application>A+</application> applications tend to be portable.
+    </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.aplusdev.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.aplusdev.org/Download/index.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
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       <title>ABC</title>
+      <para><application>ABC</application> is an interactive programming
+      language and environment for personal computing, originally intended as a
+      good replacement for BASIC. It was designed by first doing a task
+      analysis of the programming task. <application>ABC</application> is easy
+      to learn (an hour or so for someone who has already programmed), and yet
+      easy to use. Originally intended as a language for beginners, it has
+      evolved into a powerful tool for beginners and experts alike. Some
+      features of the language include: a powerful collection of only five data
+      types that easily combines strong typing, yet without declarations,
+      no limitations (such as max int), apart from sheer exhaustion of memory
+      refinements to support top-down programming, nesting by indentation and
+      programs typically are one fourth or one fifth the size of the equivalent
+      Pascal or C program. </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/implementations.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>ABC</application> is an interactive programming language
+        and environment for personal computing, originally intended as a
+        good replacement for BASIC. It was designed by first doing a task
+        analysis of the programming task. <application>ABC</application> is easy
+        to learn (an hour or so for someone who has already programmed), and yet
+        easy to use. Originally intended as a language for beginners, it has
+        evolved into a powerful tool for beginners and experts alike. Some
+        features of the language include: a powerful collection of only five
+        data types that easily combines strong typing, yet without declarations,
+        no limitations (such as max int), apart from sheer exhaustion of memory
+        refinements to support top-down programming, nesting by indentation and
+        programs typically are one fourth or one fifth the size of the
+        equivalent Pascal or C program.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/implementations.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
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       <title>ALF</title>
+      <para><application>ALF</application> is a language which combines
+      functional and logic programming techniques. The foundation of
+      <application>ALF</application> is Horn clause logic with equality which
+      consists of predicates and Horn clauses for logic programming, and
+      functions and equations for functional programming. The
+      <application>ALF</application> system is an efficient implementation of
+      the combination of resolution, narrowing, rewriting and rejection.
+      Similarly to Prolog, <application>ALF</application> uses a backtracking
+      strategy corresponding to a depth-first search in the derivation
+      tree.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mh/systems/ALF.html"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mh/systems/ALF/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>ALF</application> is a language which combines
+        functional and logic programming techniques. The foundation of
+        <application>ALF</application> is Horn clause logic with equality which
+        consists of predicates and Horn clauses for logic programming, and
+        functions and equations for functional programming. The
+        <application>ALF</application> system is an efficient implementation of
+        the combination of resolution, narrowing, rewriting and rejection.
+        Similarly to Prolog, <application>ALF</application> uses a backtracking
+        strategy corresponding to a depth-first search in the derivation tree.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mh/systems/ALF.html"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mh/systems/ALF/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
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       <title>ASM</title>
+      <para><application>ASM</application> is a Java bytecode manipulation
+      framework. It can be used to dynamically generate stub classes or other
+      proxy classes, directly in binary form, or to dynamically modify
+      classes at load time, i.e., just before they are loaded into the Java
+      Virtual Machine. <application>ASM</application> offers similar
+      functionalities as BCEL or SERP, but is much smaller (33KB instead of
+KB for BCEL and 150KB for SERP) and faster than these tools (the
+      overhead of a load time class transformation is of the order of 60% with
+      <application>ASM</application>, 700% or more with BCEL, and 1100% or
+      more with SERP). Indeed <application>ASM</application> was designed to be
+      used in a dynamic way (though it works statically as well) and was
+      therefore designed and implemented to be as small and as fast as
+      possible.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://asm.objectweb.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://forge.objectweb.org/projects/asm/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>ASM</application> is a Java bytecode manipulation
+        framework. It can be used to dynamically generate stub classes or other
+        proxy classes, directly in binary form, or to dynamically modify
+        classes at load time, i.e., just before they are loaded into the Java
+        Virtual Machine. <application>ASM</application> offers similar
+        functionalities as BCEL or SERP, but is much smaller (33KB instead of
+KB for BCEL and 150KB for SERP) and faster than these tools (the
+        overhead of a load time class transformation is of the order of 60% with
+        <application>ASM</application>, 700% or more with BCEL, and 1100% or
+        more with SERP). Indeed <application>ASM</application> was designed to
+        be used in a dynamic way (though it works statically as well) and was
+        therefore designed and implemented to be as small and as fast as
+        possible.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://asm.objectweb.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://forge.objectweb.org/projects/asm/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
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       <title>BCPL</title>
+      <para><application>BCPL</application> is a simple typeless language that
+      was designed in 1966 by Martin Richards and implemented for the first
+      time at MIT in the Spring of 1967.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/BCPL.html"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/BCPL/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>BCPL</application> is a simple typeless language that
+        was designed in 1966 by Martin Richards and implemented for the first
+        time at MIT in the Spring of 1967.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/BCPL.html"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/BCPL/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
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       <title>BETA</title>
+      <para><application>BETA</application> is developed within the
+      Scandinavian School of object-orientation, where the first
+      object-oriented language, Simula, was developed.
+      <application>BETA</application> is a modern language in the Simula
+      tradition. The resulting language is smaller than Simula in spite of
+      being considerably more expressive. <application>BETA</application> is a
+      strongly typed language like Simula, Eiffel and C++, with most type
+      checking being carried out at compile-time. It is well known that it is
+      not possible to obtain all type checking at compile time without
+      sacrificing the expressiveness of the language.
+      <application>BETA</application> has optimum balance between compile-time
+      type checking and run-time type checking.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.daimi.au.dk/~beta/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="ftp://ftp.daimi.au.dk/pub/beta/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>BETA</application> is developed within the
+        Scandinavian School of object-orientation, where the first
+        object-oriented language, Simula, was developed.
+        <application>BETA</application> is a modern language in the Simula
+        tradition. The resulting language is smaller than Simula in spite of
+        being considerably more expressive. <application>BETA</application> is
+        a strongly typed language like Simula, Eiffel and C++, with most type
+        checking being carried out at compile-time. It is well known that it is
+        not possible to obtain all type checking at compile time without
+        sacrificing the expressiveness of the language.
+        <application>BETA</application> has optimum balance between
+        compile-time type checking and run-time type checking.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.daimi.au.dk/~beta/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="ftp://ftp.daimi.au.dk/pub/beta/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
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       <title>&lt;bigwig&gt;</title>
+      <para><application>&lt;bigwig&gt;</application> is a high-level
+      programming language for developing interactive Web services. Programs
+      are compiled into a conglomerate of lower-level technologies such as C
+      code, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, and SSL, all running on top of a runtime
+      system based on an Apache Web server module. It is a descendant of the
+      Mawl project but is a completely new design and implementation with
+      vastly expanded ambitions. The <application>&lt;bigwig&gt;</application>
+      language is really a collection of tiny domain-specific languages
+      focusing on different aspects of interactive Web services. These
+      contributing languages are held together by a C-like skeleton language.
+      Thus, <application>&lt;bigwig&gt;</application> has the look and feel of
+      C-programs but with special data and control structures.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.brics.dk/bigwig/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.brics.dk/bigwig/download/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>&lt;bigwig&gt;</application> is a high-level programming
+        language for developing interactive Web services. Programs are compiled
+        into a conglomerate of lower-level technologies such as C code, HTTP,
+        HTML, JavaScript, and SSL, all running on top of a runtime system based
+        on an Apache Web server module. It is a descendant of the Mawl project
+        but is a completely new design and implementation with vastly expanded
+        ambitions. The <application>&lt;bigwig&gt;</application> language is
+        really a collection of tiny domain-specific languages focusing on
+        different aspects of interactive Web services. These contributing
+        languages are held together by a C-like skeleton language.  Thus,
+        <application>&lt;bigwig&gt;</application> has the look and feel of
+        C-programs but with special data and control structures.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.brics.dk/bigwig/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.brics.dk/bigwig/download/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
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       <title>Bigloo</title>
+      <para><application>Bigloo</application> is a Scheme implementation
+      devoted to one goal: enabling Scheme based programming style where C(++)
+      is usually required. <application>Bigloo</application> attempts to make
+      Scheme practical by offering features usually presented by traditional
+      programming languages but not offered by Scheme and functional
+      programming. Bigloo compiles Scheme modules and delivers small and fast
+      stand-alone binary executables. It enables full connections between
+      Scheme and C programs, between Scheme and Java programs, and between
+      Scheme and C# programs.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Bigloo</application> is a Scheme implementation devoted
+        to one goal: enabling Scheme based programming style where C(++) is
+        usually required. <application>Bigloo</application> attempts to make
+        Scheme practical by offering features usually presented by traditional
+        programming languages but not offered by Scheme and functional
+        programming. Bigloo compiles Scheme modules and delivers small and
+        fast stand-alone binary executables. It enables full connections
+        between Scheme and C programs, between Scheme and Java programs, and
+        between Scheme and C# programs.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
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       <title>C--</title>
+      <para><application>C--</application> is a portable assembly language that
+      can be generated by a front end and implemented by any of several code
+      generators. It serves as an interface between high-level compilers and
+      retargetable, optimizing code generators. Authors of front ends and code
+      generators can cooperate easily.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.cminusminus.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.cminusminus.org/code.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>C--</application> is a portable assembly language that
+        can be generated by a front end and implemented by any of several code
+        generators. It serves as an interface between high-level compilers and
+        retargetable, optimizing code generators. Authors of front ends and
+        code generators can cooperate easily.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.cminusminus.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.cminusminus.org/code.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
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       <title>Caml</title>
+      <para><application>Caml</application> is a general-purpose programming
+      language, designed with program safety and reliability in mind. It is
+      very expressive, yet easy to learn and use.
+      <application>Caml</application> supports functional, imperative, and
+      object-oriented programming styles. It has been developed and distributed
+      by INRIA, France's national research institute for computer science,
+      since 1985. The Objective Caml system is the main implementation of the
+      <application>Caml</application> language. It features a powerful module
+      system and a full-fledged object-oriented layer. It comes with a
+      native-code compiler that supports numerous architectures, for high
+      performance; a bytecode compiler, for increased portability; and an
+      interactive loop, for experimentation and rapid development.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://caml.inria.fr/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Caml</application> is a general-purpose programming
+        language, designed with program safety and reliability in mind. It is
+        very expressive, yet easy to learn and use.
+        <application>Caml</application> supports functional, imperative, and
+        object-oriented programming styles. It has been developed and
+        distributed by INRIA, France's national research institute for
+        computer science, since 1985. The Objective Caml system is the main
+        implementation of the <application>Caml</application> language. It
+        features a powerful module system and a full-fledged object-oriented
+        layer. It comes with a native-code compiler that supports numerous
+        architectures, for high performance; a bytecode compiler, for increased
+        portability; and an interactive loop, for experimentation and rapid
+        development.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://caml.inria.fr/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Ch</title>
+      <para><application>Ch</application> is an embeddable C/C++ interpreter
+      for cross-platform scripting, shell programming, 2D/3D plotting,
+      numerical computing, and embedded scripting.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.softintegration.com/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.softintegration.com/products/chstandard/download/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Ch</application> is an embeddable C/C++ interpreter
+        for cross-platform scripting, shell programming, 2D/3D plotting,
+        numerical computing, and embedded scripting.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.softintegration.com/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.softintegration.com/products/chstandard/download/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Clean</title>
+      <para><application>Clean</application> is a general purpose,
+      state-of-the-art, pure and lazy functional programming language designed
+      for making real-world applications. <application>Clean</application> is
+      the only functional language in the world which offers uniqueness typing.
+      This type system makes it possible in a pure functional language to
+      incorporate destructive updates of arbitrary data structures (including
+      arrays) and to make direct interfaces to the outside imperative world.
+      The type system makes it possible to develop efficient
+      applications.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://wiki.clean.cs.ru.nl/Clean"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://wiki.clean.cs.ru.nl/Download_Clean"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Clean</application> is a general purpose,
+        state-of-the-art, pure and lazy functional programming language
+        designed for making real-world applications.
+        <application>Clean</application> is the only functional language in
+        the world which offers uniqueness typing.  This type system makes it
+        possible in a pure functional language to incorporate destructive
+        updates of arbitrary data structures (including arrays) and to make
+        direct interfaces to the outside imperative world.  The type system
+        makes it possible to develop efficient applications.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://wiki.clean.cs.ru.nl/Clean"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://wiki.clean.cs.ru.nl/Download_Clean"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Cyclone</title>
+      <para><application>Cyclone</application> is a programming language based
+      on C that is safe, meaning that it rules out programs that have buffer
+      overflows, dangling pointers, format string attacks, and so on.
+      High-level, type-safe languages, such as Java, Scheme, or ML also provide
+      safety, but they don't give the same control over data representations
+      and memory management that C does (witness the fact that the run-time
+      systems for these languages are usually written in C.) Furthermore,
+      porting legacy C code to these languages or interfacing with legacy C
+      libraries is a difficult and error-prone process. The goal of
+      <application>Cyclone</application> is to give programmers the same
+      low-level control and performance of C without sacrificing safety, and to
+      make it easy to port or interface with legacy C code.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/wiki/Download/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Cyclone</application> is a programming language based on
+        C that is safe, meaning that it rules out programs that have buffer
+        overflows, dangling pointers, format string attacks, and so on.
+        High-level, type-safe languages, such as Java, Scheme, or ML also
+        provide safety, but they don't give the same control over data
+        representations and memory management that C does (witness the fact
+        that the run-time systems for these languages are usually written in
+        C.) Furthermore, porting legacy C code to these languages or
+        interfacing with legacy C libraries is a difficult and error-prone
+        process. The goal of <application>Cyclone</application> is to give
+        programmers the same low-level control and performance of C without
+        sacrificing safety, and to make it easy to port or interface with
+        legacy C code.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/wiki/Download/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>D</title>
+      <para><application>D</application> is a general purpose systems and
+      applications programming language. It is a higher level language than
+      C++, but retains the ability to write high performance code and interface
+      directly with the operating system APIs and with hardware.
+      <application>D</application> is well suited to writing medium to large
+      scale million line programs with teams of developers. It is easy to
+      learn, provides many capabilities to aid the programmer, and is well
+      suited to aggressive compiler optimization technology.
+      <application>D</application> is not a scripting language, nor an
+      interpreted language. It doesn't come with a VM, a religion, or an
+      overriding philosophy. It's a practical language for practical
+      programmers who need to get the job done quickly, reliably, and leave
+      behind maintainable, easy to understand code.
+      <application>D</application> is the culmination of decades of experience
+      implementing compilers for many diverse languages, and attempting to
+      construct large projects using those languages. It draws inspiration from
+      those other languages (most especially C++) and tempers it with
+      experience and real world practicality.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.digitalmars.com/d/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>D</application> is a general purpose systems and
+        applications programming language. It is a higher level language than
+        C++, but retains the ability to write high performance code and
+        interface directly with the operating system APIs and with hardware.
+        <application>D</application> is well suited to writing medium to large
+        scale million line programs with teams of developers. It is easy to
+        learn, provides many capabilities to aid the programmer, and is well
+        suited to aggressive compiler optimization technology.
+        <application>D</application> is not a scripting language, nor an
+        interpreted language. It doesn't come with a VM, a religion, or an
+        overriding philosophy. It's a practical language for practical
+        programmers who need to get the job done quickly, reliably, and leave
+        behind maintainable, easy to understand code.
+        <application>D</application> is the culmination of decades of
+        experience implementing compilers for many diverse languages, and
+        attempting to construct large projects using those languages. It draws
+        inspiration from those other languages (most especially C++) and
+        tempers it with experience and real world practicality.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.digitalmars.com/d/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>DMDScript</title>
+      <para><application>DMDScript</application> is Digital Mars'
+      implementation of the ECMA 262 scripting language. Netscape's
+      implementation is called JavaScript, Microsoft's implementation is
+      called JScript. <application>DMDScript</application> is much faster
+      than other implementations, which you can verify with the included
+      benchmark.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.digitalmars.com/dscript/index.html"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>DMDScript</application> is Digital Mars'
+        implementation of the ECMA 262 scripting language. Netscape's
+        implementation is called JavaScript, Microsoft's implementation is
+        called JScript. <application>DMDScript</application> is much faster
+        than other implementations, which you can verify with the included
+        benchmark.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.digitalmars.com/dscript/index.html"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>DotGNU Portable.NET</title>
+      <para><application>DotGNU Portable.NET</application> goal is to build a
+      suite of free software tools to build and execute .NET applications,
+      including a C# compiler, assembler, disassembler, and runtime engine.
+      While the initial target platform was GNU/Linux, it is also known to run
+      under Windows, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and MacOS X. The runtime engine
+      has been tested on the x86, PowerPC, ARM, Sparc, PARISC, s390, Alpha, and
+      IA-64 processors. <application>DotGNU Portable.NET</application> is part
+      of the DotGNU project, built in accordance with the requirements of the
+      GNU Project. DotGNU Portable.NET is focused on compatibility with the
+      ECMA specifications for CLI. There are other projects under the DotGNU
+      meta-project to build other necessary pieces of infrastructure, and to
+      explore non-CLI approaches to virtual machine implementation.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/pnet-packages.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>DotGNU Portable.NET</application> goal is to build a
+        suite of free software tools to build and execute .NET applications,
+        including a C# compiler, assembler, disassembler, and runtime engine.
+        While the initial target platform was GNU/Linux, it is also known to
+        run under Windows, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and MacOS X. The runtime
+        engine has been tested on the x86, PowerPC, ARM, Sparc, PARISC, s390,
+        Alpha, and IA-64 processors.
+        <application>DotGNU Portable.NET</application> is part of the DotGNU
+        project, built in accordance with the requirements of the GNU Project.
+        DotGNU Portable.NET is focused on compatibility with the ECMA
+        specifications for CLI. There are other projects under the DotGNU
+        meta-project to build other necessary pieces of infrastructure, and to
+        explore non-CLI approaches to virtual machine implementation.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/pnet-packages.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Dylan</title>
+      <para><application>Dylan</application> is an advanced, object-oriented,
+      dynamic language which supports rapid program development. When needed,
+      programs can be optimized for more efficient execution by supplying more
+      type information to the compiler. Nearly all entities in
+      <application>Dylan</application> (including functions, classes, and basic
+      data types such as integers) are first class objects. Additionally,
+      <application>Dylan</application> supports multiple inheritance,
+      polymorphism, multiple dispatch, keyword arguments, object introspection,
+      macros, and many other advanced features... --Peter Hinely.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.opendylan.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://opendylan.org/download/index.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Dylan</application> is an advanced, object-oriented,
+        dynamic language which supports rapid program development. When needed,
+        programs can be optimized for more efficient execution by supplying
+        more type information to the compiler. Nearly all entities in
+        <application>Dylan</application> (including functions, classes, and
+        basic data types such as integers) are first class objects.
+        Additionally, <application>Dylan</application> supports multiple
+        inheritance, polymorphism, multiple dispatch, keyword arguments,
+        object introspection, macros, and many other advanced features...
+        --Peter Hinely.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.opendylan.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://opendylan.org/download/index.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>E</title>
+      <para><application>E</application> is a secure distributed Java-based
+      pure-object platform and p2p scripting language. It has two parts: ELib
+      and the <application>E</application> Language. Elib provides the stuff
+      that goes on between objects. As a pure-Java library, ELib provides for
+      inter-process capability-secure distributed programming. Its
+      cryptographic capability protocol enables mutually suspicious Java
+      processes to cooperate safely, and its event-loop concurrency and promise
+      pipelining enable high performance deadlock free distributed pure-object
+      computing. The <application>E</application> Language can be used to
+      express what happens within an object. It provides a convenient and
+      familiar notation for the ELib computational model, so you can program
+      in one model rather than two. Under the covers, this notation expands
+      into Kernel-E, a minimalist lambda-language much like Scheme or
+      Smalltalk. Objects written in the <application>E</application> language
+      are only able to interact with other objects according to ELib's
+      semantics, enabling object granularity intra-process security, including
+      the ability to safely run untrusted mobile code (such as caplets).</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.erights.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.erights.org/download/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>E</application> is a secure distributed Java-based
+        pure-object platform and p2p scripting language. It has two parts: ELib
+        and the <application>E</application> Language. Elib provides the stuff
+        that goes on between objects. As a pure-Java library, ELib provides for
+        inter-process capability-secure distributed programming. Its
+        cryptographic capability protocol enables mutually suspicious Java
+        processes to cooperate safely, and its event-loop concurrency and
+        promise pipelining enable high performance deadlock free distributed
+        pure-object computing. The <application>E</application> Language can
+        be used to express what happens within an object. It provides a
+        convenient and familiar notation for the ELib computational model, so
+        you can program in one model rather than two. Under the covers, this
+        notation expands into Kernel-E, a minimalist lambda-language much like
+        Scheme or Smalltalk. Objects written in the
+        <application>E</application> language are only able to interact with
+        other objects according to ELib's semantics, enabling object
+        granularity intra-process security, including the ability to safely
+        run untrusted mobile code (such as caplets).
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.erights.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.erights.org/download/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>elastiC</title>
+      <para><application>elastiC</application> is a portable high-level
+      object-oriented interpreted language with a C like syntax. Its main
+      characteristics are: open source, interpreted, has portable bytecode
+      compilation, dynamic typing, automatic real very fast garbage collection,
+      object oriented with meta-programming support (a la Smalltalk),
+      functional programming support (Scheme-like closures with lexical
+      scoping, and eval-like functionality), hierarchical namespaces, a rich
+      set of useful built-in types (dynamic arrays, dictionaries, symbols,
+      ...), extensible with C (you can add functions, types, classes, methods,
+      packages, ...), embeddable in C. <application>elastiC</application> has
+      been strongly influenced by C, Smalltalk, Scheme and Python and tries to
+      merge the best characteristics of all these languages, while still
+      coherently maintaining its unique personality.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.elasticworld.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.elasticworld.org/download.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>elastiC</application> is a portable high-level
+        object-oriented interpreted language with a C like syntax. Its main
+        characteristics are: open source, interpreted, has portable bytecode
+        compilation, dynamic typing, automatic real very fast garbage
+        collection, object oriented with meta-programming support (a la
+        Smalltalk), functional programming support (Scheme-like closures with
+        lexical scoping, and eval-like functionality), hierarchical namespaces,
+        a rich set of useful built-in types (dynamic arrays, dictionaries,
+        symbols, ...), extensible with C (you can add functions, types,
+        classes, methods, packages, ...), embeddable in C.
+        <application>elastiC</application> has been strongly influenced by C,
+        Smalltalk, Scheme and Python and tries to merge the best
+        characteristics of all these languages, while still coherently
+        maintaining its unique personality.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.elasticworld.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.elasticworld.org/download.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Erlang/OTP</title>
+      <para><application>Erlang/OTP</application> is a development environment
+      based on Erlang. Erlang is a programming language which has many features
+      more commonly associated with an operating system than with a programming
+      language: concurrent processes, scheduling, memory management,
+      distribution, networking, etc. The initial open-source Erlang release
+      contains the implementation of Erlang, as well as a large part of
+      Ericsson's middleware for building distributed high-availability systems.
+      Erlang is characterized by the following features: robustness, soft
+      real-time, hot code upgrades and incremental code loading.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.erlang.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.erlang.org/download.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Erlang/OTP</application> is a development environment
+        based on Erlang. Erlang is a programming language which has many
+        features more commonly associated with an operating system than with a
+        programming language: concurrent processes, scheduling, memory
+        management, distribution, networking, etc. The initial open-source
+        Erlang release contains the implementation of Erlang, as well as a
+        large part of Ericsson's middleware for building distributed
+        high-availability systems.  Erlang is characterized by the following
+        features: robustness, soft real-time, hot code upgrades and
+        incremental code loading.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.erlang.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.erlang.org/download.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Euphoria</title>
+      <para><application>Euphoria</application> is a simple, flexible, and
+      easy-to-learn programming language. It lets you quickly and easily
+      develop programs for Windows, DOS, Linux and FreeBSD. Euphoria was first
+      released in 1993. Since then Rapid Deployment Software has been steadily
+      improving it with the help of a growing number of enthusiastic users.
+      Although <application>Euphoria</application> provides subscript checking,
+      uninitialized variable checking and numerous other run-time checks, it is
+      extremely fast. People have used it to develop high-speed DOS games,
+      Windows GUI programs, and X Window System programs. It is also very
+      useful for CGI (Web-based) programming.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/v20.htm"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Euphoria</application> is a simple, flexible, and
+        easy-to-learn programming language. It lets you quickly and easily
+        develop programs for Windows, DOS, Linux and FreeBSD. Euphoria was
+        first released in 1993. Since then Rapid Deployment Software has been
+        steadily improving it with the help of a growing number of
+        enthusiastic users.  Although <application>Euphoria</application>
+        provides subscript checking, uninitialized variable checking and
+        numerous other run-time checks, it is extremely fast. People have used
+        it to develop high-speed DOS games, Windows GUI programs, and X Window
+        System programs. It is also very useful for CGI (Web-based)
+        programming.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/v20.htm"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Felix</title>
+      <para><application>Felix</application> is an advanced Algol like
+      procedural programming language with a strong functional subsystem. It
+      features ML style static typing, first class functions, pattern matching,
+      garbage collection, polymorphism, and has built in support for high
+      performance microthreading, regular expressions and context free parsing.
+      The system provides a scripting harness so the language can be used like
+      other scripting languages such as Python and Perl, but underneath it
+      generates native code to obtain high performance. A key feature of the
+      system is that it uses the C/C++ object model, and provides an advanced
+      binding sublanguage to support integration with C/C++ at both the source
+      and object levels, both for embedding C/C++ data types and functions into
+      <application>Felix</application>, and for embedding
+      <application>Felix</application> into existing C++ architectures. The
+      <application>Felix</application> compiler is written in Objective Caml,
+      and generates ISO C++ which should compile on any platform.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://felix.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://felix-lang.org/$/usr/local/lib/felix/tarballs"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Felix</application> is an advanced Algol like
+        procedural programming language with a strong functional subsystem. It
+        features ML style static typing, first class functions, pattern
+        matching, garbage collection, polymorphism, and has built in support
+        for high performance microthreading, regular expressions and context
+        free parsing.  The system provides a scripting harness so the language
+        can be used like other scripting languages such as Python and Perl,
+        but underneath it generates native code to obtain high performance. A
+        key feature of the system is that it uses the C/C++ object model, and
+        provides an advanced binding sublanguage to support integration with
+        C/C++ at both the source and object levels, both for embedding C/C++
+        data types and functions into <application>Felix</application>, and
+        for embedding <application>Felix</application> into existing C++
+        architectures. The <application>Felix</application> compiler is
+        written in Objective Caml, and generates ISO C++ which should compile
+        on any platform.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://felix.sourceforge.net/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://felix-lang.org/$/usr/local/lib/felix/tarballs"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>ferite</title>
+      <para><application>ferite</application> is a scripting language and
+      engine all in one manageable chunk. It is designed to be easily extended
+      in terms of API, and to be used within other applications making them
+      more configurable and useful to the end user. It has a syntax similar to
+      a number of other languages but remains clean and its own
+      language.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.ferite.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.ferite.org/download.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>ferite</application> is a scripting language and engine
+        all in one manageable chunk. It is designed to be easily extended in
+        terms of API, and to be used within other applications making them
+        more configurable and useful to the end user. It has a syntax similar
+        to a number of other languages but remains clean and its own language.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.ferite.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.ferite.org/download.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Forth</title>
+      <para><application>Forth</application> is a stack-based, extensible
+      language without type-checking. It is probably best known for its
+      "reverse Polish" (postfix) arithmetic notation, familiar to users of
+      Hewlett-Packard calculators. <application>Forth</application> is a
+      real-time programming language originally developed to control
+      telescopes. <application>Forth</application> has many unique features
+      and applications: it can compile itself into a new compiler,
+      reverse-polish coding, edit time error checking and compiling (similar
+      to BASIC), extremely efficient thread based language, can be used to
+      debug itself, extensible; thus can become what ever you need it to be.
+      The links below lead to the website of the Forth Interest Group (FIG),
+      a world-wide, non-profit organization for education in and the promotion
+      of the <application>Forth</application> computer language. Another
+      worthwhile website dedicated to the <application>Forth</application>
+      community is <ulink url="http://wiki.forthfreak.net/"/>.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.forth.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.forth.org/compilers.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Forth</application> is a stack-based, extensible
+        language without type-checking. It is probably best known for its
+        "reverse Polish" (postfix) arithmetic notation, familiar to users of
+        Hewlett-Packard calculators. <application>Forth</application> is a
+        real-time programming language originally developed to control
+        telescopes. <application>Forth</application> has many unique features
+        and applications: it can compile itself into a new compiler,
+        reverse-polish coding, edit time error checking and compiling (similar
+        to BASIC), extremely efficient thread based language, can be used to
+        debug itself, extensible; thus can become what ever you need it to be.
+        The links below lead to the website of the Forth Interest Group (FIG),
+        a world-wide, non-profit organization for education in and the
+        promotion of the <application>Forth</application> computer language.
+        Another worthwhile website dedicated to the
+        <application>Forth</application> community is <ulink
+        url="http://wiki.forthfreak.net/"/>.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.forth.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.forth.org/compilers.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>GNU Smalltalk</title>
+      <para><application>GNU Smalltalk</application> is a free implementation
+      of the Smalltalk-80 language which runs on most versions on Unix and, in
+      general, everywhere you can find a POSIX-compliance library. An uncommon
+      feature of it is that it is well-versed to scripting tasks and headless
+      processing. See <ulink
+      url="http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual/html_node/Overview.html"/>
+      for a more detailed explanation of
+      <application>GNU Smalltalk</application>.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://smalltalk.gnu.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&gnu-http;/smalltalk/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>GNU Smalltalk</application> is a free implementation
+        of the Smalltalk-80 language which runs on most versions on Unix and,
+        in general, everywhere you can find a POSIX-compliance library. An
+        uncommon feature of it is that it is well-versed to scripting tasks
+        and headless processing. See <ulink url="
+        http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual/html_node/Overview.html
+        "/> for a more detailed explanation of
+        <application>GNU Smalltalk</application>.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://smalltalk.gnu.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&gnu-http;/smalltalk/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Haskell</title>
+      <para>Haskell is a computer programming language. In particular, it is a
+      polymorphicly typed, lazy, purely functional language, quite different
+      from most other programming languages. The language is named for Haskell
+      Brooks Curry, whose work in mathematical logic serves as a foundation for
+      functional languages. Haskell is based on lambda calculus. There are many
+      implementations of Haskell, among them:</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>GHC: <ulink
+          url="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Helium: <ulink
+          url="http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/bin/view/Helium/WebHome"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Hugs: <ulink
+          url="http://www.haskell.org/hugs/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>nhc98: <ulink
+          url="http://www.haskell.org/nhc98/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        Haskell is a computer programming language. In particular, it is a
+        polymorphicly typed, lazy, purely functional language, quite different
+        from most other programming languages. The language is named for Haskell
+        Brooks Curry, whose work in mathematical logic serves as a foundation
+        for functional languages. Haskell is based on lambda calculus. There
+        are many implementations of Haskell, among them:
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            GHC: <ulink
+            url="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Helium: <ulink
+            url="http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/bin/view/Helium/WebHome"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Hugs: <ulink
+            url="http://www.haskell.org/hugs/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            nhc98: <ulink
+            url="http://www.haskell.org/nhc98/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>HLA (High Level Assembly)</title>
+      <para>The <application>HLA</application> language was developed as a tool
+      to help teach assembly language programming and machine organization to
+      University students at the University of California, Riverside. The basic
+      idea was to teach students assembly language programming by leveraging
+      their knowledge of high level languages like C/C++ and Pascal/Delphi. At
+      the same time, <application>HLA</application> was designed to allow
+      advanced assembly language programmers write more readable and more
+      powerful assembly language code.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/HighLevelAsm/index.html"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/HighLevelAsm/dnld.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        The <application>HLA</application> language was developed as a tool
+        to help teach assembly language programming and machine organization to
+        University students at the University of California, Riverside. The
+        basic idea was to teach students assembly language programming by
+        leveraging their knowledge of high level languages like C/C++ and
+        Pascal/Delphi. At the same time, <application>HLA</application> was
+        designed to allow advanced assembly language programmers write more
+        readable and more powerful assembly language code.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/HighLevelAsm/index.html"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/HighLevelAsm/dnld.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Icon</title>
+      <para><application>Icon</application> is a high-level, general-purpose
+      programming language with a large repertoire of features for processing
+      data structures and character strings. It is an imperative, procedural
+      language with a syntax reminiscent of C and Pascal, but with semantics at
+      a much higher level.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/icon/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Icon</application> is a high-level, general-purpose
+        programming language with a large repertoire of features for processing
+        data structures and character strings. It is an imperative, procedural
+        language with a syntax reminiscent of C and Pascal, but with semantics
+        at a much higher level.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/icon/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Io</title>
+      <para><application>Io</application> is a small, prototype-based
+      programming language. The ideas in <application>Io</application> are
+      mostly inspired by <application>Smalltalk</application> (all values are
+      objects), <application>Self</application> (prototype-based),
+      <application>NewtonScript</application> (differential inheritance),
+      <application>Act1</application> (actors and futures for concurrency),
+      <application>LISP</application> (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable
+      tree) and <application>Lua</application> (small, embeddable).</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://iolanguage.org"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://iobin.suspended-chord.info/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Io</application> is a small, prototype-based
+        programming language. The ideas in <application>Io</application> are
+        mostly inspired by <application>Smalltalk</application> (all values are
+        objects), <application>Self</application> (prototype-based),
+        <application>NewtonScript</application> (differential inheritance),
+        <application>Act1</application> (actors and futures for concurrency),
+        <application>LISP</application> (code is a runtime
+        inspectable/modifiable tree) and <application>Lua</application>
+        (small, embeddable).
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://iolanguage.org"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://iobin.suspended-chord.info/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>J</title>
+      <para><application>J</application> is a modern, high-level,
+      general-purpose, high-performance programming language. It is portable
+      and runs on Windows, Unix, Mac, and PocketPC handhelds, both as a GUI
+      and in a console. True 64-bit <application>J</application> systems are
+      available for XP64 or Linux64, on AMD64 or Intel EM64T platforms.
+      <application>J</application> systems can be installed and distributed
+      for free.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.jsoftware.com/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.jsoftware.com/stable.htm"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>J</application> is a modern, high-level,
+        general-purpose, high-performance programming language. It is portable
+        and runs on Windows, Unix, Mac, and PocketPC handhelds, both as a GUI
+        and in a console. True 64-bit <application>J</application> systems are
+        available for XP64 or Linux64, on AMD64 or Intel EM64T platforms.
+        <application>J</application> systems can be installed and distributed
+        for free.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.jsoftware.com/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.jsoftware.com/stable.htm"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Jamaica</title>
+      <para><application>Jamaica</application>, the JVM Macro Assembler, is an
+      easy-to-learn and easy-to-use assembly language for JVM bytecode
+      programming. It uses Java syntax to define a JVM class except for the
+      method body that takes bytecode instructions, including
+      <application>Jamaica</application>'s built-in macros. In
+      <application>Jamaica</application>, bytecode instructions use mnemonics
+      and symbolic names for all variables, parameters, data fields, constants
+      and labels.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://judoscript.org/jamaica.html"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://judoscript.org/download.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Jamaica</application>, the JVM Macro Assembler, is an
+        easy-to-learn and easy-to-use assembly language for JVM bytecode
+        programming. It uses Java syntax to define a JVM class except for the
+        method body that takes bytecode instructions, including
+        <application>Jamaica</application>'s built-in macros. In
+        <application>Jamaica</application>, bytecode instructions use mnemonics
+        and symbolic names for all variables, parameters, data fields,
+        constants, and labels.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://judoscript.org/jamaica.html"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://judoscript.org/download.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Joy</title>
+      <para><application>Joy</application> is a purely functional programming
+      language. Whereas all other functional programming languages are based on
+      the application of functions to arguments, <application>Joy</application>
+      is based on the composition of functions. All such functions take a stack
+      as an argument and produce a stack as a value. Consequently much of
+      <application>Joy</application> looks like ordinary postfix notation.
+      However, in <application>Joy</application> a function can consume any
+      number of parameters from the stack and leave any number of results on
+      the stack. The concatenation of appropriate programs denotes the
+      composition of the functions which the programs denote.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/research/research-projects/past-projects/joy-programming-language"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Joy</application> is a purely functional programming
+        language. Whereas all other functional programming languages are based
+        on the application of functions to arguments,
+        <application>Joy</application> is based on the composition of
+        functions. All such functions take a stack as an argument and produce
+        a stack as a value. Consequently much of <application>Joy</application>
+        looks like ordinary postfix notation.  However, in
+        <application>Joy</application> a function can consume any number of
+        parameters from the stack and leave any number of results on the stack.
+        The concatenation of appropriate programs denotes the composition of
+        the functions which the programs denote.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/research/research-projects/past-projects/joy-programming-language"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Judo</title>
+      <para><application>Judo</application> is a practical, functional
+      scripting language. It is designed to cover the use cases of not only
+      algorithmic/object-oriented/multi-threaded programming and Java scripting
+      but also a number of major application domain tasks, such as scripting
+      for JDBC, WSDL, ActiveX, OS, multiple file/data formats, etc. Despite its
+      rich functionality, the base language is extremely simple, and domain
+      support syntax is totally intuitive to domain experts, so that even
+      though you have never programmed in <application>Judo</application>, you
+      would have little trouble figuring out what the code does.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://judoscript.org/judo.html"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://judoscript.org/download.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Judo</application> is a practical, functional scripting
+        language. It is designed to cover the use cases of not only
+        algorithmic/object-oriented/multi-threaded programming and Java
+        scripting but also a number of major application domain tasks, such
+        as scripting for JDBC, WSDL, ActiveX, OS, multiple file/data formats,
+        etc. Despite its rich functionality, the base language is extremely
+        simple, and domain support syntax is totally intuitive to domain
+        experts, so that even though you have never programmed in
+        <application>Judo</application>, you would have little trouble
+        figuring out what the code does.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://judoscript.org/judo.html"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://judoscript.org/download.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>JWIG</title>
+      <para><application>JWIG</application> is a Java-based high-level
+      programming language for development of interactive Web services. It
+      contains an advanced session model, a flexible mechanism for dynamic
+      construction of XML documents, in particular XHTML, and a powerful API
+      for simplifying use of the HTTP protocol and many other aspects of Web
+      service programming. To support program development,
+      <application>JWIG</application> provides a unique suite of highly
+      specialized program analysers that at compile time verify for a given
+      program that no runtime errors can occur while building documents or
+      receiving form input, and that all documents being shown are valid
+      according to the document type definition for XHTML 1.0. The main goal of
+      the <application>JWIG</application> project is to simplify development of
+      complex Web services, compared to alternatives, such as, Servlets, JSP,
+      ASP, and PHP. <application>JWIG</application> is a descendant of the
+      <application>&lt;bigwig&gt;</application> research language.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.brics.dk/JWIG/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.brics.dk/JWIG/download.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>JWIG</application> is a Java-based high-level
+        programming language for development of interactive Web services. It
+        contains an advanced session model, a flexible mechanism for dynamic
+        construction of XML documents, in particular XHTML, and a powerful API
+        for simplifying use of the HTTP protocol and many other aspects of Web
+        service programming. To support program development,
+        <application>JWIG</application> provides a unique suite of highly
+        specialized program analysers that at compile time verify for a given
+        program that no runtime errors can occur while building documents or
+        receiving form input, and that all documents being shown are valid
+        according to the document type definition for XHTML 1.0. The main goal
+        of the <application>JWIG</application> project is to simplify
+        development of complex Web services, compared to alternatives, such
+        as, Servlets, JSP, ASP, and PHP. <application>JWIG</application> is a
+        descendant of the <application>&lt;bigwig&gt;</application> research
+        language.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.brics.dk/JWIG/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.brics.dk/JWIG/download.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Lava</title>
+      <para><application>Lava</application> is a name unfortunately chosen for
+      several unrelated software development languages/projects. So it doesn't
+      appear as though BLFS has a preference for one over another, the project
+      web sites are listed below, without descriptions of the capabilities or
+      features for any of them.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://lavape.sourceforge.net/index.htm"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Lava</application> is a name unfortunately chosen for
+        several unrelated software development languages/projects. So it
+        doesn't appear as though BLFS has a preference for one over another,
+        the project web sites are listed below, without descriptions of the
+        capabilities or features for any of them.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://lavape.sourceforge.net/index.htm"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
         <!-- URL broken
           <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://javalab.cs.uni-bonn.de/research/darwin/#The%20Lava%20Language"/></para>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://javalab.cs.uni-bonn.de/research/darwin/#The%20Lava%20Language"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
         -->
         <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://mathias.tripod.com/IavaHomepage.html"/></para>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://mathias.tripod.com/IavaHomepage.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Mercury</title>
+      <para><application>Mercury</application> is a new logic/functional
+      programming language, which combines the clarity and expressiveness of
+      declarative programming with advanced static analysis and error detection
+      features. Its highly optimized execution algorithm delivers efficiency
+      far in excess of existing logic programming systems, and close to
+      conventional programming systems. <application>Mercury</application>
+      addresses the problems of large-scale program development, allowing
+      modularity, separate compilation, and numerous optimization/time
+      trade-offs.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://mercurylang.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://mercurylang.org/download.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Mercury</application> is a new logic/functional
+        programming language, which combines the clarity and expressiveness of
+        declarative programming with advanced static analysis and error
+        detection features. Its highly optimized execution algorithm delivers
+        efficiency far in excess of existing logic programming systems, and
+        close to conventional programming systems.
+        <application>Mercury</application> addresses the problems of
+        large-scale program development, allowing modularity, separate
+        compilation, and numerous optimization/time trade-offs.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://mercurylang.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://mercurylang.org/download.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Mono</title>
+      <para><application>Mono</application> provides the necessary software to
+      develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris,
+      Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Sponsored by Novell, the
+      <application>Mono</application> open source project has an active and
+      enthusiastic contributing community and is positioned to become the
+      leading choice for development of Linux applications.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/archive/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Mono</application> provides the necessary software to
+        develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris,
+        Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Sponsored by Novell, the
+        <application>Mono</application> open source project has an active and
+        enthusiastic contributing community and is positioned to become the
+        leading choice for development of Linux applications.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/archive/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>MPD</title>
+      <para><application>MPD</application> is a variant of the
+      <application>SR</application> programming language.
+      <application>SR</application> has a Pascal-like syntax and uses guarded
+      commands for control statements. <application>MPD</application> has a
+      C-like syntax and C-like control statements. However, the main components
+      of the two languages are the same: resources, globals, operations, procs,
+      procedures, processes, and virtual machines. Moreover,
+      <application>MPD</application> supports the same variety of concurrent
+      programming mechanisms as <application>SR</application>: co statements,
+      semaphores, call/send/forward invocations, and receive and input
+      statements.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.cs.arizona.edu/mpd/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.cs.arizona.edu/mpd/download/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>MPD</application> is a variant of the
+        <application>SR</application> programming language.
+        <application>SR</application> has a Pascal-like syntax and uses guarded
+        commands for control statements. <application>MPD</application> has a
+        C-like syntax and C-like control statements. However, the main
+        components of the two languages are the same: resources, globals,
+        operations, procs, procedures, processes, and virtual machines.
+        Moreover, <application>MPD</application> supports the same variety of
+        concurrent programming mechanisms as <application>SR</application>:
+        co statements, semaphores, call/send/forward invocations, and receive
+        and input statements.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.cs.arizona.edu/mpd/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.cs.arizona.edu/mpd/download/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Nemerle</title>
+      <para><application>Nemerle</application> is a high-level statically-typed
+      programming language for the .NET platform. It offers functional,
+      object-oriented and imperative features. It has a simple C#-like syntax
+      and a powerful meta-programming system. Features that come from the
+      functional land are variants, pattern matching, type inference and
+      parameter polymorphism (aka generics). The meta-programming system allows
+      great compiler extensibility, embedding domain specific languages,
+      partial evaluation and aspect-oriented programming.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://nemerle.org/About"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://nemerle.org/Downloads"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Nemerle</application> is a high-level statically-typed
+        programming language for the .NET platform. It offers functional,
+        object-oriented and imperative features. It has a simple C#-like syntax
+        and a powerful meta-programming system. Features that come from the
+        functional land are variants, pattern matching, type inference and
+        parameter polymorphism (aka generics). The meta-programming system
+        allows great compiler extensibility, embedding domain specific
+        languages, partial evaluation and aspect-oriented programming.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://nemerle.org/About"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://nemerle.org/Downloads"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Octave</title>
+      <para>GNU <application>Octave</application> is a high-level language,
+      primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient
+      command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems
+      numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a
+      language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as
+      a batch-oriented language. <application>Octave</application> has
+      extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems,
+      finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary functions,
+      manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and
+      differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible and
+      customizable via user-defined functions written in
+      <application>Octave</application>'s own language, or using dynamically
+      loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        GNU <application>Octave</application> is a high-level language,
+        primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient
+        command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems
+        numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a
+        language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as
+        a batch-oriented language. <application>Octave</application> has
+        extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems,
+        finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary
+        functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary
+        differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily
+        extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in
+        <application>Octave</application>'s own language, or using dynamically
+        loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.
+     </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>OO2C (Optimizing Oberon-2 Compiler)</title>
+      <para><application>OO2C</application> is an Oberon-2 development
+      platform. It consists of an optimizing compiler, a number of related
+      tools, a set of standard library modules and a reference manual.
+      Oberon-2 is a general-purpose programming language in the tradition of
+      Pascal and Modula-2. Its most important features are block structure,
+      modularity, separate compilation, static typing with strong type checking
+      (also across module boundaries) and type extension with type-bound
+      procedures. Type extension makes Oberon-2 an object-oriented
+      language.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooc/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&sourceforge-dl;/ooc/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>OO2C</application> is an Oberon-2 development platform.
+        It consists of an optimizing compiler, a number of related tools, a
+        set of standard library modules and a reference manual.  Oberon-2 is
+        a general-purpose programming language in the tradition of Pascal and
+        Modula-2. Its most important features are block structure, modularity,
+        separate compilation, static typing with strong type checking (also
+        across module boundaries) and type extension with type-bound
+        procedures. Type extension makes Oberon-2 an object-oriented language.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooc/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="&sourceforge-dl;/ooc/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Ordered Graph Data Language (OGDL)</title>
+      <para><application>OGDL</application> is a structured textual format that
+      represents information in the form of graphs, where the nodes are strings
+      and the arcs or edges are spaces or indentation.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://ogdl.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&sourceforge-dl;/ogdl/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>OGDL</application> is a structured textual format that
+        represents information in the form of graphs, where the nodes are
+        strings and the arcs or edges are spaces or indentation.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://ogdl.sourceforge.net/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="&sourceforge-dl;/ogdl/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Pike</title>
+      <para><application>Pike</application> is a dynamic programming language
+      with a syntax similar to Java and C. It is simple to learn, does not
+      require long compilation passes and has powerful built-in data types
+      allowing simple and really fast data manipulation. Pike is released under
+      the GNU GPL, GNU LGPL and MPL.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://pike.ida.liu.se/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://pike.ida.liu.se/download/pub/pike"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
+<!-- Broken link
+    <sect3 role="package">
+      <title>pyc</title>
+      <para><application>pyc</application> is a compiler that compiles
+      <application>Python</application> source code to bytecode (from
+      <filename class='extension'>.py</filename> to
+      <filename class='extension'>.pyc</filename>), written entirely in
+      <application>Python</application> (based on code from the <quote>compiler
+      package</quote>). It can compile itself and pass a 3-stage bootstrap.
+      <application>pyc</application> performs advanced optimizations which
+      results in better (smaller) bytecode.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/pyc/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
+-->
+      <para>
+        <application>Pike</application> is a dynamic programming language
+        with a syntax similar to Java and C. It is simple to learn, does not
+        require long compilation passes and has powerful built-in data types
+        allowing simple and really fast data manipulation. Pike is released
+        under the GNU GPL, GNU LGPL and MPL.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://pike.ida.liu.se/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://pike.ida.liu.se/download/pub/pike"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
     <sect3 role="package">
       <title>Pyrex</title>
+      <para><application>Pyrex</application> is a language specially designed
+      <para>
+        <application>Pyrex</application> is a language specially designed
       for writing Python extension modules. It's designed to bridge the gap
       between the nice, high-level, easy-to-use world of
 …
       <application>Python</application> and C data types any way you want, and
       compiles it into a C extension for
+      <application>Python</application>.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/"/></para>
+      <application>Python</application>.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Q</title>
+      <para><application>Q</application> is a functional programming language
+      based on term rewriting. Thus, a <application>Q</application> program or
+      <quote>script</quote> is simply a collection of equations which are used
+      to evaluate expressions in a symbolic fashion. The equations establish
+      algebraic identities and are interpreted as rewriting rules in order to
+      reduce expressions to <quote>normal forms</quote>.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&sourceforge-dl;/q-lang/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Q</application> is a functional programming language
+        based on term rewriting. Thus, a <application>Q</application> program or
+        <quote>script</quote> is simply a collection of equations which are used
+        to evaluate expressions in a symbolic fashion. The equations establish
+        algebraic identities and are interpreted as rewriting rules in order to
+        reduce expressions to <quote>normal forms</quote>.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="&sourceforge-dl;/q-lang/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>R</title>
+      <para><application>R</application> is a language and environment for
+      statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project similar to the
+      <application>S</application> language and environment which was developed
+      at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&amp;T, now Lucent Technologies) by
+      John Chambers and colleagues. <application>R</application> can be
+      considered as a different implementation of <application>S</application>.
+      There are some important differences, but much code written for
+      <application>S</application> runs unaltered under
+      <application>R</application>. <application>R</application> provides a
+      wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical
+      statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...)
+      and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The
+      <application>S</application> language is often the vehicle of choice for
+      research in statistical methodology, and <application>R</application>
+      provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.r-project.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>R</application> is a language and environment for
+        statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project similar to the
+        <application>S</application> language and environment which was
+        developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&amp;T, now Lucent
+        Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues.
+        <application>R</application> can be considered as a different
+        implementation of <application>S</application>.  There are some
+        important differences, but much code written for
+        <application>S</application> runs unaltered under
+        <application>R</application>. <application>R</application> provides a
+        wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical
+        statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering,
+        ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The
+        <application>S</application> language is often the vehicle of choice
+        for research in statistical methodology, and
+        <application>R</application> provides an Open Source route to
+        participation in that activity.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.r-project.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Regina Rexx</title>
+      <para><application>Regina</application> is a Rexx interpreter that has
+      been ported to most Unix platforms (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX,
+      etc.) and also to OS/2, eCS, DOS, Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP, Amiga, AROS, QNX4.x,
+      QNX6.x BeOS, MacOS X, EPOC32, AtheOS, OpenVMS, SkyOS and OpenEdition.
+      Rexx is a programming language that was designed to be easy to use for
+      inexperienced programmers yet powerful enough for experienced users. It
+      is also a language ideally suited as a macro language for other
+      applications.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&sourceforge-dl;/regina-rexx"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Regina</application> is a Rexx interpreter that has been
+        ported to most Unix platforms (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX,
+        etc.) and also to OS/2, eCS, DOS, Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP, Amiga, AROS,
+        QNX4.x, QNX6.x BeOS, MacOS X, EPOC32, AtheOS, OpenVMS, SkyOS and
+        OpenEdition.  Rexx is a programming language that was designed to be
+        easy to use for inexperienced programmers yet powerful enough for
+        experienced users. It is also a language ideally suited as a macro
+        language for other applications.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="&sourceforge-dl;/regina-rexx"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Small Device C Compiler (SDCC)</title>
+      <para><application>SDCC</application> is a Freeware, retargetable,
+      optimizing ANSI-C compiler that targets the Intel 8051, Maxim 80DS390
+      and the Zilog Z80 based MCUs. Work is in progress on supporting the
+      Motorola 68HC08 as well as Microchip PIC16 and PIC18 series. The entire
+      source code for the compiler is distributed under GPL.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/snap.php#Source"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>SDCC</application> is a Freeware, retargetable,
+        optimizing ANSI-C compiler that targets the Intel 8051, Maxim 80DS390
+        and the Zilog Z80 based MCUs. Work is in progress on supporting the
+        Motorola 68HC08 as well as Microchip PIC16 and PIC18 series. The entire
+        source code for the compiler is distributed under GPL.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/snap.php#Source"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>SmartEiffel (The GNU Eiffel Compiler)</title>
+      <para><application>SmartEiffel</application> claims to be <quote>the
+      fastest and the slimmest multi-platform Eiffel compiler on Earth</quote>.
+      Eiffel is an object-oriented programming language which emphasizes the
+      production of robust software. Its syntax is keyword-oriented in the
+      ALGOL and Pascal tradition. Eiffel is strongly statically typed, with
+      automatic memory management (typically implemented by garbage
+      collection). Distinguishing characteristics of Eiffel include Design by
+      contract (DbC), liberal use of inheritance including multiple
+      inheritance, a type system handling both value and reference semantics,
+      and generic classes. Eiffel has a unified type system&mdash;all types in
+      Eiffel are classes, so it is possible to create subclasses of the basic
+      classes such as INTEGER. Eiffel has operator overloading, including the
+      ability to define new operators, but does not have method
+      overloading.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://smarteiffel.loria.fr/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=184"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>SmartEiffel</application> claims to be <quote>the fastest
+        and the slimmest multi-platform Eiffel compiler on Earth</quote>.
+        Eiffel is an object-oriented programming language which emphasizes the
+        production of robust software. Its syntax is keyword-oriented in the
+        ALGOL and Pascal tradition. Eiffel is strongly statically typed, with
+        automatic memory management (typically implemented by garbage
+        collection). Distinguishing characteristics of Eiffel include Design
+        by contract (DbC), liberal use of inheritance including multiple
+        inheritance, a type system handling both value and reference semantics,
+        and generic classes. Eiffel has a unified type system&mdash;all types
+        in Eiffel are classes, so it is possible to create subclasses of the
+        basic classes such as INTEGER. Eiffel has operator overloading,
+        including the ability to define new operators, but does not have
+        method overloading.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://smarteiffel.loria.fr/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=184"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Squeak</title>
+      <para><application>Squeak</application> is an open, highly-portable
+      Smalltalk implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in
+      Smalltalk, making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. To achieve
+      practical performance, a translator produces an equivalent C program
+      whose performance is comparable to commercial Smalltalks. Other
+      noteworthy aspects of <application>Squeak</application> include:
+      real-time sound and music synthesis written entirely in Smalltalk,
+      extensions of BitBlt to handle color of any depth and anti-aliased
+      image rotation and scaling, network access support that allows simple
+      construction of servers and other useful facilities, it runs
+      bit-identical on many platforms (Windows, Mac, Unix, and others), a
+      compact object format that typically requires only a single word of
+      overhead per object and a simple yet efficient incremental garbage
+      collector for 32-bit direct pointers efficient bulk-mutation of
+      objects.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.squeak.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.squeak.org/Download/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Squeak</application> is an open, highly-portable
+        Smalltalk implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in
+        Smalltalk, making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. To achieve
+        practical performance, a translator produces an equivalent C program
+        whose performance is comparable to commercial Smalltalks. Other
+        noteworthy aspects of <application>Squeak</application> include:
+        real-time sound and music synthesis written entirely in Smalltalk,
+        extensions of BitBlt to handle color of any depth and anti-aliased
+        image rotation and scaling, network access support that allows simple
+        construction of servers and other useful facilities, it runs
+        bit-identical on many platforms (Windows, Mac, Unix, and others), a
+        compact object format that typically requires only a single word of
+        overhead per object and a simple yet efficient incremental garbage
+        collector for 32-bit direct pointers efficient bulk-mutation of
+        objects.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.squeak.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.squeak.org/Download/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>SR (Synchronizing Resources)</title>
+      <para><application>SR</application> is a language for writing concurrent
+      programs. The main language constructs are resources and operations.
+      Resources encapsulate processes and variables they share; operations
+      provide the primary mechanism for process interaction.
+      <application>SR</application> provides a novel integration of the
+      mechanisms for invoking and servicing operations. Consequently, all of
+      local and remote procedure call, rendezvous, message passing, dynamic
+      process creation, multicast, and semaphores are supported.
+      <application>SR</application> also supports shared global variables and
+      operations.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.cs.arizona.edu/sr/index.html"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/sr/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>SR</application> is a language for writing concurrent
+        programs. The main language constructs are resources and operations.
+        Resources encapsulate processes and variables they share; operations
+        provide the primary mechanism for process interaction.
+        <application>SR</application> provides a novel integration of the
+        mechanisms for invoking and servicing operations. Consequently, all of
+        local and remote procedure call, rendezvous, message passing, dynamic
+        process creation, multicast, and semaphores are supported.
+        <application>SR</application> also supports shared global variables and
+        operations.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.cs.arizona.edu/sr/index.html"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/sr/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Standard ML</title>
+      <para>Standard ML is a safe, modular, strict, functional, polymorphic
+      programming language with compile-time type checking and type inference,
+      garbage collection, exception handling, immutable data types and
+      updatable references, abstract data types, and parametric modules. It has
+      efficient implementations and a formal definition with a proof of
+      soundness. There are many implementations of Standard ML, among them:</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>ML Kit: <ulink
+          url="http://www.it-c.dk/research/mlkit/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>MLton: <ulink
+          url="http://mlton.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Poly/ML: <ulink
+          url="http://www.polyml.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Standard ML of New Jersey: <ulink
+          url="http://www.smlnj.org/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        Standard ML is a safe, modular, strict, functional, polymorphic
+        programming language with compile-time type checking and type
+        inference, garbage collection, exception handling, immutable data
+        types and updatable references, abstract data types, and parametric
+        modules. It has efficient implementations and a formal definition with
+        a proof of soundness. There are many implementations of Standard ML,
+        among them:
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            ML Kit: <ulink
+            url="http://www.it-c.dk/research/mlkit/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            MLton: <ulink
+            url="http://mlton.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Poly/ML: <ulink
+            url="http://www.polyml.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Standard ML of New Jersey: <ulink
+            url="http://www.smlnj.org/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)</title>
+      <para><application>SBCL</application> is an open source (free software)
+      compiler and runtime system for ANSI Common Lisp. It provides an
+      interactive environment including an integrated native compiler, a
+      debugger, and many extensions. <application>SBCL</application> runs on a
+      number of platforms.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.sbcl.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&sourceforge-dl;/sbcl/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>SBCL</application> is an open source (free software)
+        compiler and runtime system for ANSI Common Lisp. It provides an
+        interactive environment including an integrated native compiler, a
+        debugger, and many extensions. <application>SBCL</application> runs
+        on a number of platforms.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.sbcl.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="&sourceforge-dl;/sbcl/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Tiny C Compiler (TCC)</title>
+      <para><application>Tiny C Compiler</application> is a small C compiler
+      that can be used to compile and execute C code everywhere, for example
+      on rescue disks (about 100KB for x86 TCC executable, including C
+      preprocessor, C compiler, assembler and linker).
+      <application>TCC</application> is fast. It generates optimized x86 code,
+      has no byte code overhead and compiles, assembles and links several times
+      faster than <application>GCC</application>.
+      <application>TCC</application> is versatile, any C dynamic library can be
+      used directly. It is heading toward full ISOC99 compliance and can
+      compile itself. The compiler is safe as it includes an optional memory
+      and bound checker. Bound checked code can be mixed freely with standard
+      code. <application>TCC</application> compiles and executes C source
+      directly. No linking or assembly necessary. A full C preprocessor and
+      GNU-like assembler is included. It is C script supported; just add
+      <quote>#!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run</quote> on the first line of your C
+      source, and execute it directly from the command line. With libtcc, you
+      can use <application>TCC</application> as a backend for dynamic code
+      generation.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://bellard.org/tcc/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/tinycc/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Tiny C Compiler</application> is a small C compiler
+        that can be used to compile and execute C code everywhere, for example
+        on rescue disks (about 100KB for x86 TCC executable, including C
+        preprocessor, C compiler, assembler and linker).
+        <application>TCC</application> is fast. It generates optimized x86
+        code, has no byte code overhead and compiles, assembles and links
+        several times faster than <application>GCC</application>.
+        <application>TCC</application> is versatile, any C dynamic library can
+        be used directly. It is heading toward full ISOC99 compliance and can
+        compile itself. The compiler is safe as it includes an optional memory
+        and bound checker. Bound checked code can be mixed freely with
+        standard code. <application>TCC</application> compiles and executes
+        C source directly. No linking or assembly necessary. A full C
+        preprocessor and GNU-like assembler is included. It is C script
+        supported; just add <quote>#!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run</quote> on the
+        first line of your C source, and execute it directly from the command
+        line. With libtcc, you can use <application>TCC</application> as a
+        backend for dynamic code generation.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://bellard.org/tcc/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/tinycc/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>TinyCOBOL</title>
+      <para><application>TinyCOBOL</application> is a COBOL compiler being
+      developed by members of the free software community. The mission is to
+      produce a COBOL compiler based on the COBOL 85 standards.
+      <application>TinyCOBOL</application> is available for the Intel
+      architecture (IA32) and compatible processors on the following platforms:
+      BeOS, FreeBSD, Linux and MinGW on Windows.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiny-cobol/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&sourceforge-dl;/tiny-cobol/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>TinyCOBOL</application> is a COBOL compiler being
+        developed by members of the free software community. The mission is to
+        produce a COBOL compiler based on the COBOL 85 standards.
+        <application>TinyCOBOL</application> is available for the Intel
+        architecture (IA32) and compatible processors on the following
+        platforms: BeOS, FreeBSD, Linux and MinGW on Windows.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiny-cobol/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="&sourceforge-dl;/tiny-cobol/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Yorick</title>
+      <para><application>Yorick</application> is an interpreted programming
+      language, designed for postprocessing or steering large scientific
+      simulation codes. Smaller scientific simulations or calculations, such as
+      the flow past an airfoil or the motion of a drumhead, can be written as
+      standalone yorick programs. The language features a compact syntax for
+      many common array operations, so it processes large arrays of numbers
+      very efficiently. Unlike most interpreters, which are several hundred
+      times slower than compiled code for number crunching,
+      <application>Yorick</application> can approach to within a factor of four
+      or five of compiled speed for many common tasks. Superficially,
+      <application>Yorick</application> code resembles C code, but
+      <application>Yorick</application> variables are never explicitly declared
+      and have a dynamic scoping similar to many Lisp dialects. The
+      <quote>unofficial</quote> home page for <application>Yorick</application>
+      can be found at <ulink url="http://www.maumae.net/yorick"/>.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://yorick.sourceforge.net/index.php"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/yorick/files/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Yorick</application> is an interpreted programming
+        language, designed for postprocessing or steering large scientific
+        simulation codes. Smaller scientific simulations or calculations, such
+        as the flow past an airfoil or the motion of a drumhead, can be
+        written as standalone yorick programs. The language features a compact
+        syntax for many common array operations, so it processes large arrays
+        of numbers very efficiently. Unlike most interpreters, which are
+        several hundred times slower than compiled code for number crunching,
+        <application>Yorick</application> can approach to within a factor of
+        four or five of compiled speed for many common tasks. Superficially,
+        <application>Yorick</application> code resembles C code, but
+        <application>Yorick</application> variables are never explicitly
+        declared and have a dynamic scoping similar to many Lisp dialects. The
+        <quote>unofficial</quote> home page for
+        <application>Yorick</application> can be found at <ulink
+        url="http://www.maumae.net/yorick"/>.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://yorick.sourceforge.net/index.php"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/yorick/files/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>ZPL</title>
+      <para><application>ZPL</application> is an array programming language
+      designed from first principles for fast execution on both sequential
+      and parallel computers. It provides a convenient high-level programming
+      medium for supercomputers and large-scale clusters with efficiency
+      comparable to hand-coded message passing. It is the perfect alternative
+      to using a sequential language like C or Fortran and a message passing
+      library like MPI.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/home/index.html"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/download/download.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>ZPL</application> is an array programming language
+        designed from first principles for fast execution on both sequential
+        and parallel computers. It provides a convenient high-level programming
+        medium for supercomputers and large-scale clusters with efficiency
+        comparable to hand-coded message passing. It is the perfect alternative
+        to using a sequential language like C or Fortran and a message passing
+        library like MPI.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/home/index.html"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/download/download.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Byte Code Engineering Library (BCEL)</title>
+      <para><application>BECL</application> is intended to give users a
+      convenient possibility to analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java
+      class files (those ending with
+      <filename class='extension'>.class</filename>). Classes are represented
+      by objects which contain all the symbolic information of the given class:
+      methods, fields and byte code instructions, in particular. Such objects
+      can be read from an existing file, be transformed by a program (e.g., a
+      class loader at run-time) and dumped to a file again. An even more
+      interesting application is the creation of classes from scratch at
+      run-time. The Byte Code Engineering Library may be also useful if you
+      want to learn about the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the format of Java
+      <filename class='extension'>.class</filename> files.
+      <application>BCEL</application> is already being used successfully in
+      several projects such as compilers, optimizers, obfuscators, code
+      generators and analysis tools.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://jakarta.apache.org/bcel/index.html"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://archive.apache.org/dist/jakarta/bcel/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>BECL</application> is intended to give users a
+        convenient possibility to analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java
+        class files (those ending with
+        <filename class='extension'>.class</filename>). Classes are represented
+        by objects which contain all the symbolic information of the given
+        class: methods, fields and byte code instructions, in particular. Such
+        objects can be read from an existing file, be transformed by a program
+        (e.g., a class loader at run-time) and dumped to a file again. An even
+        more interesting application is the creation of classes from scratch
+        at run-time. The Byte Code Engineering Library may be also useful if
+        you want to learn about the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the format
+        of Java <filename class='extension'>.class</filename> files.
+        <application>BCEL</application> is already being used successfully in
+        several projects such as compilers, optimizers, obfuscators, code
+        generators and analysis tools.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://jakarta.apache.org/bcel/index.html"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://archive.apache.org/dist/jakarta/bcel/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Choco</title>
+      <para><application>Choco</application> is a Java library for constraint
+      satisfaction problems (CSP), constraint programming (CP) and
+      explanation-based constraint solving (e-CP). It is built on a event-based
+      propagation mechanism with backtrackable structures.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/choco/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://choco.sourceforge.net/download.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Choco</application> is a Java library for constraint
+        satisfaction problems (CSP), constraint programming (CP) and
+        explanation-based constraint solving (e-CP). It is built on a
+        event-based propagation mechanism with backtrackable structures.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/choco/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://choco.sourceforge.net/download.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>GOB (GObject Builder)</title>
+      <para><application>GOB</application> (<application>GOB2</application>
+      anyway) is a preprocessor for making GObjects with inline C code so that
+      generated files are not edited. Syntax is inspired by
+      <application>Java</application> and <application>Yacc</application> or
+      <application>Lex</application>. The implementation is intentionally kept
+      simple, and no C actual code parsing is done.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.5z.com/jirka/gob.html"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://ftp.5z.com/pub/gob/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>GOB</application> (<application>GOB2</application>
+        anyway) is a preprocessor for making GObjects with inline C code so
+        that generated files are not edited. Syntax is inspired by
+        <application>Java</application> and <application>Yacc</application> or
+        <application>Lex</application>. The implementation is intentionally
+        kept simple, and no C actual code parsing is done.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.5z.com/jirka/gob.html"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://ftp.5z.com/pub/gob/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>GTK+/GNOME Language Bindings (wrappers)</title>
+      <para><application>GTK+</application>/<application>GNOME</application>
+      language bindings allow <application>GTK+</application> to be used from
+      other programming languages, in the style of those languages.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>GTK+</application>/<application>GNOME</application>
+        language bindings allow <application>GTK+</application> to be used from
+        other programming languages, in the style of those languages.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
         <title>Java-GNOME</title>
+        <para><application>Java-GNOME</application> is a set of Java bindings
+        for the <application>GNOME</application> and
+        <application>GTK+</application> libraries that allow
+        <application>GNOME</application> and <application>GTK+</application>
+        applications to be written in Java. The
+        <application>Java-GNOME</application> API has been carefully designed
+        to be easy to use, maintaining a good OO paradigm, yet still wrapping
+        the entire functionality of the underlying libraries.
+        <application>Java-GNOME</application> can be used with the
+        <application>Eclipse</application> development environment and Glade
+        user interface designer to create applications with ease.</para>
+        <para>
+          <application>Java-GNOME</application> is a set of Java bindings
+          for the <application>GNOME</application> and
+          <application>GTK+</application> libraries that allow
+          <application>GNOME</application> and <application>GTK+</application>
+          applications to be written in Java. The
+          <application>Java-GNOME</application> API has been carefully designed
+          to be easy to use, maintaining a good OO paradigm, yet still wrapping
+          the entire functionality of the underlying libraries.
+          <application>Java-GNOME</application> can be used with the
+          <application>Eclipse</application> development environment and Glade
+          user interface designer to create applications with ease.
+      </para>
         <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
           <listitem>
+            <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/"/></para>
+            <para>
+              Project Home Page: <ulink
+              url="http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/"/>
+            </para>
           </listitem>
           <listitem>
+            <para>Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/get/"/></para>
+            <para>
+              Download Location: <ulink
+              url="http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/get/"/>
+            </para>
           </listitem>
         </itemizedlist>
 …
         <title>gtk2-perl</title>
+        <para><application>gtk2-perl</application> is the collective name for
+        a set of Perl bindings for <application>GTK+</application> 2.x and
+        various related libraries. These modules make it easy to write
+        <application>GTK</application> and <application>GNOME</application>
+        applications using a natural, Perlish, object-oriented syntax.</para>
+        <para>
+          <application>gtk2-perl</application> is the collective name for
+          a set of Perl bindings for <application>GTK+</application> 2.x and
+          various related libraries. These modules make it easy to write
+          <application>GTK</application> and <application>GNOME</application>
+          applications using a natural, Perlish, object-oriented syntax.
+      </para>
         <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
           <listitem>
+            <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
+            <para>
+              Project Home Page: <ulink
+              url="http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/"/>
+            </para>
           </listitem>
           <listitem>
+            <para>Download Location: <ulink
+            url="&sourceforge-dl;/gtk2-perl"/></para>
+            <para>
+              Download Location: <ulink
+              url="&sourceforge-dl;/gtk2-perl"/>
+            </para>
           </listitem>
         </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>KDE Language Bindings</title>
+      <para><application>KDE</application> and most
+      <application>KDE</application> applications are implemented using the
+      C++ programming language, however there are number of bindings to other
+      languages are available. These include scripting languages like
+      <application>Perl</application>, <application>Python</application> and
+      <application>Ruby</application>, and systems programming languages such
+      as Java and C#.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>KDE</application> and most
+        <application>KDE</application> applications are implemented using the
+        C++ programming language, however there are number of bindings to other
+        languages are available. These include scripting languages like
+        <application>Perl</application>, <application>Python</application> and
+        <application>Ruby</application>, and systems programming languages such
+        as Java and C#.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Numerical Python (Numpy)</title>
+      <para><application>Numerical Python</application> adds a fast array
+      facility to the <application>Python</application> language.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://numeric.scipy.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&sourceforge-dl;/numpy/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Numerical Python</application> adds a fast array
+        facility to the <application>Python</application> language.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://numeric.scipy.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="&sourceforge-dl;/numpy/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Perl Scripts and Additional Modules</title>
+      <para>There are many <application>Perl</application> scripts and
+      additional modules located on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
+      (CPAN) web site. Here you will find
+      <quote>All Things Perl</quote>.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://cpan.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
+<!-- now included in the book
+    <sect3 role="package">
+      <title>SWIG</title>
+      <para><application>SWIG</application> is a software development tool
+      that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level
+      programming languages. <application>SWIG</application> is used with
+      different types of languages including common scripting languages such as
+      <application>Perl</application>, <application>Python</application>,
+      <application>Tcl</application>/<application>Tk</application> and
+      <application>Ruby</application>. The list of supported languages also
+      includes non-scripting languages such as <application>C#</application>,
+      <application>Common Lisp</application> (Allegro CL),
+      <application>Java</application>, <application>Modula-3</application>
+      and <application>OCAML</application>. Also several interpreted and
+      compiled Scheme implementations (<application>Chicken</application>,
+      <application>Guile</application>, <application>MzScheme</application>)
+      are supported. <application>SWIG</application> is most commonly used to
+      create high-level interpreted or compiled programming environments, user
+      interfaces, and as a tool for testing and prototyping C/C++ software.
+      <application>SWIG</application> can also export its parse tree in the
+      form of XML and Lisp s-expressions.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.swig.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&sourceforge-dl;/swig/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
+-->
+      <para>
+        There are many <application>Perl</application> scripts and
+        additional modules located on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
+        (CPAN) web site. Here you will find <quote>All Things Perl</quote>.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://cpan.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
   </sect2>
 …
       <title>A-A-P</title>
+      <para><application>A-A-P</application> makes it easy to locate, download,
+      build and install software. It also supports browsing source code,
+      developing programs, managing different versions and distribution of
+      software and documentation. This means that
+      <application> A-A-P</application> is useful both for users and for
+      developers.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.a-a-p.org/index.html"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.a-a-p.org/download.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>A-A-P</application> makes it easy to locate, download,
+        build and install software. It also supports browsing source code,
+        developing programs, managing different versions and distribution of
+        software and documentation. This means that
+        <application>A-A-P</application> is useful both for users and for
+        developers.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.a-a-p.org/index.html"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.a-a-p.org/download.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Anjuta</title>
+      <para><application>Anujuta</application> is a versatile Integrated
+      Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++ on GNU/Linux. It has been
+      written for <application>GTK</application>/GNOME and features a number
+      of advanced programming facilities. These include project management,
+      application wizards, an on-board interactive debugger, and a powerful
+      source editor with source browsing and syntax highlighting.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://projects.gnome.org/anjuta/index.shtml"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://projects.gnome.org/anjuta/downloads.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Anujuta</application> is a versatile Integrated
+        Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++ on GNU/Linux. It has been
+        written for <application>GTK</application>/GNOME and features a number
+        of advanced programming facilities. These include project management,
+        application wizards, an on-board interactive debugger, and a powerful
+        source editor with source browsing and syntax highlighting.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://projects.gnome.org/anjuta/index.shtml"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://projects.gnome.org/anjuta/downloads.html"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Eclipse</title>
+      <para><application>Eclipse</application> is an open source community
+      whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development
+      platform and application frameworks for building software.
+      <application>Eclipse</application> contains many projects, including an
+      Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.eclipse.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>Eclipse</application> is an open source community
+        whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development
+        platform and application frameworks for building software.
+        <application>Eclipse</application> contains many projects, including an
+        Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.eclipse.org/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Mozart</title>
+      <para>The <application>Mozart</application> Programming System is an
+      advanced development platform for intelligent, distributed applications.
+      <application>Mozart</application> is based on the Oz language, which
+      supports declarative programming, object-oriented programming, constraint
+      programming, and concurrency as part of a coherent whole. For
+      distribution, <application>Mozart</application> provides a true network
+      transparent implementation with support for network awareness, openness,
+      and fault tolerance. Security is upcoming. It is an ideal platform for
+      both general-purpose distributed applications as well as for hard
+      problems requiring sophisticated optimization and inferencing
+      abilities.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://mozart.github.io/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="https://github.com/mozart/mozart2#downloads"/></para>
+      <para>
+        The <application>Mozart</application> Programming System is an advanced
+        development platform for intelligent, distributed applications.
+        <application>Mozart</application> is based on the Oz language, which
+        supports declarative programming, object-oriented programming,
+        constraint programming, and concurrency as part of a coherent whole.
+        For distribution, <application>Mozart</application> provides a true
+        network transparent implementation with support for network awareness,
+        openness, and fault tolerance. Security is upcoming. It is an ideal
+        platform for both general-purpose distributed applications as well as
+        for hard problems requiring sophisticated optimization and inferencing
+        abilities.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://mozart.github.io/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="https://github.com/mozart/mozart2#downloads"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>cachecc1</title>
+      <para><application>cachecc1</application> is a
+      <application>GCC</application> cache. It can be compared with the well
+      known <application>ccache</application> package. It has some unique
+      features including the use of an LD_PRELOADed shared object to catch
+      invocations to <command>cc1</command>, <command>cc1plus</command> and
+      <command>as</command>, it transparently supports all build methods, it
+      can cache <application>GCC</application> bootstraps and it can be
+      combined with <application>distcc</application> to transparently
+      distribute compilations.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://cachecc1.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&sourceforge-dl;/cachecc1"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>cachecc1</application> is a
+        <application>GCC</application> cache. It can be compared with the well
+        known <application>ccache</application> package. It has some unique
+        features including the use of an LD_PRELOADed shared object to catch
+        invocations to <command>cc1</command>, <command>cc1plus</command> and
+        <command>as</command>, it transparently supports all build methods, it
+        can cache <application>GCC</application> bootstraps and it can be
+        combined with <application>distcc</application> to transparently
+        distribute compilations.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://cachecc1.sourceforge.net/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="&sourceforge-dl;/cachecc1"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>ccache</title>
+      <para><application>ccache</application> is a compiler cache. It acts as
+      a caching pre-processor to C/C++ compilers, using the <option>-E</option>
+      compiler switch and a hash to detect when a compilation can be satisfied
+      from cache. This often results in 5 to 10 times faster speeds in common
+      compilations.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://ccache.samba.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://samba.org/ftp/ccache/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>ccache</application> is a compiler cache. It acts as
+        a caching pre-processor to C/C++ compilers, using the
+        <option>-E</option> compiler switch and a hash to detect when a
+        compilation can be satisfied from cache. This often results in 5 to
+times faster speeds in common compilations.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="https://ccache.dev"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="https://github.com/ccache/ccache/releases/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>DDD (GNU Data Display Debugger)</title>
+      <para><application>GNU DDD</application> is a graphical front-end for
+      command-line debuggers such as <application>GDB</application>,
+      <application>DBX</application>, <application>WDB</application>,
+      <application>Ladebug</application>, <application>JDB</application>,
+      <application>XDB</application>, the <application>Perl</application>
+      debugger, the <application>Bash</application> debugger, or the
+      <application>Python</application> debugger. Besides <quote>usual</quote>
+      front-end features such as viewing source texts,
+      <application>DDD</application> has an interactive graphical data display,
+      where data structures are displayed as graphs..</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&gnu-http;/ddd/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>GNU DDD</application> is a graphical front-end for
+        command-line debuggers such as <application>GDB</application>,
+        <application>DBX</application>, <application>WDB</application>,
+        <application>Ladebug</application>, <application>JDB</application>,
+        <application>XDB</application>, the <application>Perl</application>
+        debugger, the <application>Bash</application> debugger, or the
+        <application>Python</application> debugger. Besides
+        <quote>usual</quote> front-end features such as viewing source texts,
+        <application>DDD</application> has an interactive graphical data
+        display, where data structures are displayed as graphs.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="&gnu-http;/ddd/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>distcc</title>
+      <para><application>distcc</application> is a program to distribute builds
+      of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several machines on a
+      network. <application>distcc</application> should always generate the
+      same results as a local build, is simple to install and use, and is
+      usually much faster than a local compile.
+      <application>distcc</application> does not require all machines to share
+      a filesystem, have synchronized clocks, or to have the same libraries or
+      header files installed. They can even have different processors or
+      operating systems, if cross-compilers are installed.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://distcc.samba.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://distcc.samba.org/download.html"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>distcc</application> is a program to distribute builds
+        of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several machines
+        on a network. <application>distcc</application> should always generate
+        the same results as a local build, is simple to install and use, and
+        is usually much faster than a local compile.
+        <application>distcc</application> does not require all machines to
+        share a filesystem, have synchronized clocks, or to have the same
+        libraries or header files installed. They can even have different
+        processors or operating systems, if cross-compilers are installed.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="https://distcc.github.io/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="https://github.com/distcc/distcc/releases"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>Exuberant Ctags</title>
+      <para><application>Exuberant Ctags</application> generates an index (or
+      tag) file of language objects found in source files that allows these
+      items to be quickly and easily located by a text editor or other utility.
+      A tag signifies a language object for which an index entry is available
+      (or, alternatively, the index entry created for that object). Tag
+      generation is supported for the following languages: Assembler, AWK, ASP,
+      BETA, Bourne/Korn/Zsh Shell, C, C++, COBOL, Eiffel, Fortran, Java, Lisp,
+      Lua, Make, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, REXX, Ruby, S-Lang, Scheme, Tcl,
+      Vim, and YACC. A list of editors and tools utilizing tag files may be
+      found at <ulink url="http://ctags.sourceforge.net/tools.html"/>.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://ctags.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&sourceforge-dl;/ctags/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
+      <para>
+        <application>Exuberant Ctags</application> generates an index (or
+        tag) file of language objects found in source files that allows these
+        items to be quickly and easily located by a text editor or other
+        utility. A tag signifies a language object for which an index entry
+        is available (or, alternatively, the index entry created for that
+        object). Tag generation is supported for the following languages:
+        Assembler, AWK, ASP, BETA, Bourne/Korn/Zsh Shell, C, C++, COBOL,
+        Eiffel, Fortran, Java, Lisp, Lua, Make, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python,
+        REXX, Ruby, S-Lang, Scheme, Tcl, Vim, and YACC. A list of editors and
+        tools utilizing tag files may be found at <ulink
+        url="http://ctags.sourceforge.net/tools.html"/>.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://ctags.sourceforge.net/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="&sourceforge-dl;/ctags/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
+<!-- Untouched since 2008. There is a variable with a similar name that can be
+     used when compiling Go projects. So this porject can be considered dead.
     <sect3 role="package">
       <title>gocache (GNU Object Cache)</title>
+      <para><application>ccache</application> is a clone of
+      <application>ccache</application>, with the goal of supporting
+      compilers other than <application>GCC</application> and adding additional
+      features. Embedded compilers will especially be in focus.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gocache/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&sourceforge-dl;/gocache/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
+      <para>
+        <application>goache</application> is a clone of
+        <application>ccache</application>, with the goal of supporting
+        compilers other than <application>GCC</application> and adding
+        additional features. Embedded compilers will especially be in focus.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gocache/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="&sourceforge-dl;/gocache/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
+-->
     <sect3 role="package">
       <title>OProfile</title>
+      <para><application>OProfile</application> is a system-wide profiler for
+      Linux systems, capable of profiling all running code at low overhead.
+      <application>OProfile</application> is released under the GNU GPL. It
+      consists of a kernel driver and a daemon for collecting sample data, and
+      several post-profiling tools for turning data into information.
+      <application>OProfile</application> leverages the hardware performance
+      counters of the CPU to enable profiling of a wide variety of interesting
+      statistics, which can also be used for basic time-spent profiling. All
+      code is profiled: hardware and software interrupt handlers, kernel
+      modules, the kernel, shared libraries, and applications.
+      <application>OProfile</application> is currently in alpha status; however
+      it has proven stable over a large number of differing configurations. It
+      is being used on machines ranging from laptops to 16-way NUMA-Q
+      boxes.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/news/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/download/"/></para>
+      <para>
+        <application>OProfile</application> is a system-wide profiler for
+        Linux systems, capable of profiling all running code at low overhead.
+        <application>OProfile</application> is released under the GNU GPL. It
+        consists of a kernel driver and a daemon for collecting sample data,
+        and several post-profiling tools for turning data into information.
+        <application>OProfile</application> leverages the hardware performance
+        counters of the CPU to enable profiling of a wide variety of
+        interesting statistics, which can also be used for basic time-spent
+        profiling. All code is profiled: hardware and software interrupt
+        handlers, kernel modules, the kernel, shared libraries, and
+        applications.  <application>OProfile</application> is currently in
+        alpha status; however it has proven stable over a large number of
+        differing configurations. It is being used on machines ranging from
+        laptops to 16-way NUMA-Q boxes.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/news/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/download/"/>
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 …
       <title>strace</title>
+      <para><application>strace</application> is a system call tracer, i.e., a
+      debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by
+      another process or program.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="&sourceforge-dl;/strace/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
+<!--
+    We actually have valgrind now.
+    <sect3 role="package">
+      <title>Valgrind</title>
+      <para><application>Valgrind</application> is a collection of five tools:
+      two memory error detectors, a thread error detector, a cache profiler and
+      a heap profiler used for debugging and profiling Linux programs. Features
+      include automatic detection of many memory management and threading bugs
+      as well as detailed profiling to speed up and reduce memory use of your
+      programs.</para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
+          url="http://valgrind.org/"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Download Location: <ulink
+          url="http://valgrind.org/downloads/source_code.html"/></para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
+-->
+      <para>
+        <application>strace</application> is a system call tracer, i.e., a
+        debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by
+        another process or program.
+      </para>
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Project Home Page: <ulink
+            url="https://strace.io"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Download Location: <ulink
+            url="https://strace.io/files/"/>
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
   </sect2>

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