Open Quark supports efficient non-strict functional evaluation in
Java, and allows complete interoperability with Java, functional
metaprogramming and evaluation control. Functions can be created
programmatically in Java via a number of object models, and the full-
featured Haskell-like language CAL allows large functional libraries
and applications to be expressed conveniently. There is an
increasingly complete Eclipse plug-in to support development in the
CAL language. There is also a graphical language to create new
functions.

The 1.6 release continues to support the original motivations of the
Quark Framework with additional libraries for data and queries.  New
libraries have also been added for XML, for working with directed
graphs, for accessing Java2D drawing, along with some utilities for
working with collections.

A new tool called the "IO Source Generator" is included as part of the
1.6 release.  This can help in the construction of interfaces to Java
data models.

A number of new documents are released with this version of the
framework.  We hope these will provide further insights into the
implementation of the framework and the CAL language.

The Eclipse plug-in continues to evolve and mature with this release.

The full release notes can be read here:
http://groups.google.com/group/cal_language/web/open-quark-1-6-0-release

The download packages may be obtained here:
http://labs.businessobjects.com/cal/#Software