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CFP IWST 2015 - Deadline extension - 17th April
by jannik laval April 9, 2015

April 9, 2015

Please note that the deadline has been extended to the 17th April 2015 . [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] [Please send to interested colleagues / mailing-lists] ************************************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS IWST15 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Brescia, Italy; July 15, 2015 http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/International-Workshop-IWST_… ************************************************************************************************************ ------------------- Goals and scopes ------------------- The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Participants are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers. This year we want to open two different tracks: one research track and one industrial track with less scientific constraints. We expect papers of three kinds: Short position papers describing emerging ideas Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Industrial papers with presentation of real and innovative Smalltalk applications; this kind of paper should enlighten why Smalltalk is really appropriate for your application. We will not enforce any length restriction. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- *Submission deadline: April 17th, 2015* Notification deadline: May 20th, 2015 Workshop : July 15th, 2015 All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL ------------------- Topics ------------------- We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as: -Aspect-oriented programming, -Design patterns, -Experience reports, -Frameworks, -Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, -Interaction with other languages, -Meta-programming and Meta-modeling, -Tools ------------------- Best Paper Award ------------------- To encourage the submission of high-quality papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Best Paper Award for this edition of IWST. We thank the Lam Research Corporation for its financial contribution which makes it possible for prizes for the three best papers: 1000 USD for first place, 600 USD for second place and 400 USD for third place. The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event. The Best Paper Award will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be eligible, a paper must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference. ------------------- Publication ------------------- Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm. This site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions. ------------------- Submission ------------------- All submissions must be sent via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst2015 ------------------- Program chairs ------------------- Anne Etien (Université de Lille 1, France) Jannik Laval (Ecole des Mines de Douai, France) -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ École des Mines de Douai Enseignant-chercheur http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://www.phratch.com http://www.approchealpes.info http://car.mines-douai.fr/

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ESUG call for sponsors
by Luc Fabresse April 4, 2015

April 4, 2015

Dear Smalltalkers, The European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) welcome sponsors for the organization of the 23rd ESUG conference edition ( http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015) Sponsoring ESUG also help us to do achieve multiple actions to support Smalltalk all over the year such as: conferences, events, summertalks, projects, research articles, publications, books, student mobility, ... More infos at: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Promotion. As previous years (http://www.esug.org/About/BecomeSponsor) sponsorships level are: * Silver ESUG Sponsor: By paying 500€, the logo of your company/association is displayed during the ESUG conference, and you are also recognized as a sponsor on our ESUG website http://www.esug.org. You are entitled to mention that you are an ESUG sponsor, and to use the ESUG logo in that context. * Gold ESUG Sponsor: By paying 1000€, you get all of the above, and ESUG correspondence and distributions (CD, Documentation) will feature your logo. You also get a 10% fee reduction on the ESUG events for up to 5 people of your organization. * Platinum ESUG Sponsor: By Paying 2000€, you get all of the above, but you get a 20% fee reduction on the ESUG events for up to 10 people of your organization. If your company is interested, you can choose a sponsorship level, send us (at board(a)esug.org) information such as Organization name, VAT number, etc. and we will send you back an invoice. Also consider that sending people to the conference is a kind of sponsoring in an indirect way. So see you @ ESUG'15, Brescia, Italy 13-17 July 2015. Best regards, Luc Fabresse On behalf of ESUG board PS: Forward widely #Luc

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Nested Degenerate Convenience Methods
by Sean P. DeNigris April 2, 2015

April 2, 2015

Is there a name for the following pattern? doSomething: arg1 ^ self doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2Default doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2 ^ self doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2 ifB: arg3Default ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Nested-Degenerate-Convenience-Methods-tp4816719.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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