August 2016 - Esug-list - lists.esug.org

[ann] Lam Research evaluates Pharo

by Tudor Girba

Hi, We are very happy to make the following announcement: Lam Research, a leading supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the global semiconductor industry, is an experienced user of the Smalltalk programming language. Smalltalk is a key component in Lam's software control system for a broad range of the equipment it manufactures. Tudor Girba is a leading member of the tools and environment development effort in Pharo, having architected the Glamorous Toolkit for live programming. Eliot Miranda is author of the Cog virtual machine that underlies Pharo and other Smalltalk dialects. Lam has engaged Tudor and Eliot to explore potential enhancements in Lam's use of Smalltalk. These enhancements range from running highly optimized Smalltalk on low cost, single board computers, to enhancing Lam's Smalltalk development practices with state-of-the-art live programming. During the engagement, Tudor and Eliot successfully moved a key communication component of the control system to Pharo. It was a challenging task aimed at extending the reach of Lam’s system to the Pharo world including the option of executing on ARM processors. Cheers, Tudor Girba, Eliot Miranda and Chris Thorgrimsson

Aug. 25, 2016

[ann] GTExamples alpha

by Tudor Girba

Hi, Over the last coupe of years Stefan Reichhart and the rest of the GT team worked on an implementation of examples. The work is inspired from previous work done by Markus Gaelli and Adrian Kuhn. As one of the goals of GT is to offer a live programming environment, one important issue is how to move from the static code to live objects as fast as possible. That is why we worked on this library as a solution to provide a link between the static code and live objects. Furthermore, this examples library also enables the definition of assertions on the examples, and this provides the possibility of rethinking the way we construct tests throughout our system. Tests are great as they help us create live objects and then to assert live properties. However, they do not allow us to leverage the objects we create, and this can be a tremendous resource for understanding systems. In our vision, examples should be everywhere and they should be explicitly linked to the static code they exemplify. That is why the library comes with an initial integration in existing tools (such as Nautilus, Spotter, Inspector). The current solution works well and it is the result of several rewrites. We think that the solution is complete in terms of features, but there are still several things to improve and iterate on. To this end, I kindly ask you to take a look at it while distinguishing between the concrete implementation choice (e.g., the current extensive use of pragmas) and the conceptual benefits of the approach. To ease the discussion, we put together a short documentation: http://gtoolkit.org/doc/Examples/examples.html That being said, you can get it with the full GToolkit in Pharo 6.0: http://gtoolkit.org/#install (easiest is to download the ready made image for now) For those that are at ESUG, I will try to provide a short overview during the Show Us Your Project session from today. Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "Innovation comes in the least expected form. That is, if it is expected, it already happened."

Aug. 25, 2016

Slides ESUG 2016

by marcus.denker＠inria.fr

Hi, We are starting to upload Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/esug/presentations <http://www.slideshare.net/esug/presentations> Videos will follow... Everything (Videos, Slides, Descriptions) will end up being archived, too: http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2016/ <http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2016/> (This will happen slowly over the next days) Marcus

Aug. 24, 2016

Call for Papers: Object Oriented Programming Languages and Systems @ SAC 2017, April 3-7, 2017

by Nick Papoylias

************************************************** OOPS 2017 Call for Papers Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems http://oops.disi.unige.it/OOPS17 ************************************************** Technical Track at the 32nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2017 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2017 April 3 - 7, 2017 Marrakesh, Morocco - Important Dates Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts September 15, 2016 Paper and SRC notifications November 10, 2016 Paper and SRC camera-ready copies November 25, 2016 Author registration December 10, 2016 SAC 2017 April 3 - 7, 2017 - Track Chair Davide Ancona (davide.ancona(a)unige.it) DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy - SAC 2017 For the past thirty one years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2017 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and is hosted by the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada; University Cadi Ayyad (UCA) of Marrakech, Morocco; National School of Engineering in Rabat (EMI), Rabat, Morocco; and National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA) of Kenitra, Morocco. - Call For Student Research Abstracts Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited to submit original abstracts of their research work in areas of experimental computing and application development related to SAC 2017 Tracks. The Student Research Competition (SRC) Program is designed to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. - OOPS Track: Aims and Topics Object-oriented programming (OOP) has become the mainstream programming paradigm for developing complex software systems in most application domains. However, existing OO languages and platforms need to evolve to meet the continuous demand for new abstractions, features, and tools able to reduce the time, effort, and cost of creating object-oriented software systems, and improving their performance, quality and usability. To this aim, OOPS is seeking for research advances bringing benefits in all those typical aspects of software development, such as modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, concurrency and distribution, code generation, analysis, verification, testing, debugging, evaluation, deployment, maintenance, reuse, and software evolution and adaptation. The specific topics of interest for the OOPS track include, but are not limited to, the following: * Aspects and components * Code generation, and optimization, just-in-time compilation * Context-oriented programming * Databases and persistence * Distribution and concurrency * Dynamic and scripting languages * Evaluation * Feature Oriented Software Development and Programming * Formal verification * Internet of Things technology and programming * Integration with other paradigms * Interoperability, versioning and software evolution and adaptation * Language design and implementation * Modular and generic programming * Reflection, meta-programming * Runtime verification * Secure and dependable software * Static analysis * Testing and debugging * Type systems and type inference * Virtual machines OOPS offers a great opportunity to the OOP community to gain visibility, and to exploit the inter-disciplinary nature of SAC. - Submission Instructions Prospective papers should be submitted to the track in pdf format using the START submission system for regular and SRC papers available through the SAC 2017 home page. Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed; all papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome. SAC 2017 will use double-blind reviewing; to facilitate this, author name(s) and institution(s) must be omitted, and references to authors' own related work should be in the third person. The format of the paper must adhere to the sig-alternate style. Full papers are limited to 6 pages with the option for up to 2 additional pages (max of 8 pages) at extra charge (80 USD per page). Posters are limited to 3 pages with the option for up to 1 additional page (max of 4 pages) at extra charge (80 USD). The length of the SRC abstracts is 2 pages with no additional pages at extra charge. Papers that fall short the above requirements are subjected to rejection. All papers must be submitted by September 15, 2016. For more information please visit the SAC 2017 home page. - Proceedings Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the annual conference proceedings. Accepted posters will be published as extended abstracts in the same proceedings. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. Student registration is only intended to encourage student attendance and does not cover inclusion of papers/posters in the conference proceedings. Finally, following the tradition of the past OOPS editions, depending on the quality and the overall number of accepted papers, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a journal special issue, after the conference.

Aug. 24, 2016

Re: [Esug-list] ESUG 2016

by Leandro Caniglia

Oh. That's too bad, this is an enjoyable conference. I'm sure we'll see you next year. (or may be you can compensate this misfortune by attending the Smalltalks conference in Argentina in Novemeber!) A person who is vegan will save 1,100 gallons of water, 20 pounds CO2 equivalent, 30 square feet of forested land, 45 pounds of grain, and one sentient animal’s life every day. leandro caniglia ph.d. | chief technologist | caesar systems | accelerate confidently lcaniglia(a)caesarsystems.com | t: +1.281.598.8810 +1.281.617.2972 +54.11.4389.0126 | www <http://www.caesarsystems.com/>.petrovr <http://www.petrovr.com/>.com <http://www.caesarsystems.com/> [image: www.petrovr.com] <http://www.petrovr.com/> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/caesar-systems> [image: gplus.to/PetroVR] <http://gplus.to/PetroVR> [image: https://www.facebook.com/PetroVRSoftware] <https://www.facebook.com/PetroVRSoftware> [image: twitter.com/PetroVRSoftware] <http://twitter.com/PetroVRSoftware> This message and any attached documents contain information from Caesar Systems LLC that may be confidential/trade secret and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not read, copy, distribute or use this information. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or by reply email and then delete this message. On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Trussardi Dario Romano < dario.trussardi(a)tiscali.it> wrote: > Ciao, > > I'm sorry i can not participate at ESUG 2016. > > My heart is with you. > > Good ESUG ..... > > Dario Trussardi > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >

Aug. 23, 2016

ESUG 2016

by Trussardi Dario Romano

Ciao, I'm sorry i can not participate at ESUG 2016. My heart is with you. Good ESUG ..... Dario Trussardi

Aug. 22, 2016

Re: [Esug-list] Where is Camp Smalltalk in Prague today?

by Stéphane Ducasse

Niall May be the location for the conference is not precise enough on the web. You have to go to the “flat” building (connected to the high one) that you can see in front of you when the library (the round building) is on your right. So coming from dejvicka it is straight until the end of the road and you hit the building. I’m in the aeroport preparing for boarding and with limited bandwidth. > On 21 Aug 2016, at 10:33, Niall Ross <nfr(a)bigwig.net> wrote: > > Dear Steohane, > I went to the main venue (Faculty of Civil Engineering) at 10:00 and found a security guard who said nothing was happening there today (Sunday) - no sign of anyone. > > I can find nothing on the web page saying where Camp Smalltalk is. (I thought that meant it was at the same place as the main venue. > > Am I being blind? > > Was arriving exactly at 10:00 too early? :-) > > Yours faithfully > Niall Ross > > > > On 20 Aug 2016, at 15:30, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>> wrote: > >> Hi happy smalltalker attending ESUG >> >> I updated the social event web page >> http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Social-Event <http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Social-Event> >> >> Stef >> >> -------------------------------------------- >> Stéphane Ducasse >> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr <http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/> >> http://www.synectique.eu <http://www.synectique.eu/> / http://www.pharo.org <http://www.pharo.org/> >> 03 59 35 87 52 >> Assistant: Julie Jonas >> 03 59 57 78 50 >> 03 59 35 86 16 >> >> S. Ducasse - Inria >> 40, avenue Halley, >> Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza >> Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 >> France >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list >> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org <mailto:Esug-list@lists.esug.org> >> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas 03 59 57 78 50 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

Aug. 21, 2016

Re: [Esug-list] Where is Camp Smalltalk in Prague today?

by stephane ducasse

But ESUG is paying for the extra hall renting so I do not really understand. Stef > On 21 Aug 2016, at 10:42, Craig Latta <craig(a)blackpagedigital.com> wrote: > > > Hi Niall! > > We're here at Thákurova 7, just down Technika street from Dejvická > metro station (A line). > > > -C > > -- > Craig Latta > Black Page Digital > Amsterdam | San Francisco > craig(a)blackpagedigital.com > +31 6 2757 7177 (SMS ok) > + 1 415 287 3547 (no SMS) > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Aug. 21, 2016

Re: [Esug-list] Where is Camp Smalltalk in Prague today?

by Craig Latta

Hi Niall! We're here at Thákurova 7, just down Technika street from Dejvická metro station (A line). -C -- Craig Latta Black Page Digital Amsterdam | San Francisco craig(a)blackpagedigital.com +31 6 2757 7177 (SMS ok) + 1 415 287 3547 (no SMS)

Aug. 21, 2016

Re: [Esug-list] Where is Camp Smalltalk in Prague today?

by serge.stinckwich＠gmail.com

I put Robert in CC to have more information. Envoyé de mon iPhone > Le 21 août 2016 à 10:33, Niall Ross <nfr(a)bigwig.net> a écrit : > > Dear Steohane, > I went to the main venue (Faculty of Civil Engineering) at 10:00 and found a security guard who said nothing was happening there today (Sunday) - no sign of anyone. > > I can find nothing on the web page saying where Camp Smalltalk is. (I thought that meant it was at the same place as the main venue. > > Am I being blind? > > Was arriving exactly at 10:00 too early? :-) > > Yours faithfully > Niall Ross > > > >> On 20 Aug 2016, at 15:30, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> wrote: >> >> Hi happy smalltalker attending ESUG >> >> I updated the social event web page >> http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Social-Event >> >> Stef >> >> -------------------------------------------- >> Stéphane Ducasse >> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr >> http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org >> 03 59 35 87 52 >> Assistant: Julie Jonas >> 03 59 57 78 50 >> 03 59 35 86 16 >> >> S. Ducasse - Inria >> 40, avenue Halley, >> Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza >> Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 >> France >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list >> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Aug. 21, 2016