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[Ann] VA Smalltalk News: April 17, 2019
by Mariano Martinez Peck April 17, 2019

April 17, 2019

Greetings All, Instantiations pushed out a big news announcement today! Lots and lots happening...VA Smalltalk is definitely moving forward! Check out the announcement: https://mailchi.mp/instantiations/va-smalltalk-news-april-17 Kind Regards, -- Mariano Martinez Peck Email: marianopeck(a)gmail.com Twitter: @MartinezPeck LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mart%C3%ADnez-peck/

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Re: [Esug-list] [vwnc] most energy efficient AI system - challenge of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF
by Nowak, Helge April 15, 2019

April 15, 2019

Dear Bernhard, Alexandre and all, Thanks Bernhard for pointing to this. I would have missed it completely… The German BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung = German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology) started this competition for German universities and public research centers. It is targeted at increasing energy efficiency for AI systems. The aim is to increase Germany’s competencies and competitiveness in this sector which is deemed to be a future key technology with the potential of disruptive innovation. It is clear that the energy efficiency is less determined by what programming language is used and what virtual machine is run on some standard hardware. The real gains are rather found in maybe novel algorithms, surely in novel hardware architectures and implementations. Indeed, when you look at the details of the competition (link below) that is exactly the case: any proposed solutions submitted to the competition must belong to one of three categories: FPGAs, ASIC s in 130 nm technology or ASICs in FDSOI technology. Close hardware/software co-design is explicitly requested. Not eligible are solutions that only optimize software components or use commercially available hardware unchanged. Does this mean that this competition is of no interest to ambitious Smalltalkers? No! In contrary. With Smalltalk being a perfect interactive modeling, exploration and simulation tool we Smalltalkers can help our competition team to build, explore and optimize their ideas before and while building them in hardware. Also hardware is nothing without software. Smalltalk is in my view best positioned to execute the desired co-design in a co-evolutionary way. Certainly we could demonstrate modern “agile” engineering approaches as a side-means to increase competitiveness. Everyone interested should take a look at the competition here: https://www.bmbf.de/foerderungen/bekanntmachung-2371.html (in German, obviously). Please also forward to all people who might be interested. Cheers Helge Helge Nowak Cincom Smalltalk Technical Account Manager [http://internal.cincom.com/signature/logo.png]<http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/> Cincom Systems GmbH & Co. oHG Humboldtstraße 3 60318 Frankfurt am Main GERMANY office mobile website email +49 89 89 66 44 94 +49 172 74 00 402 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com hnowak(a)cincom.com A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero. -- Albert Einstein Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Thomas M. Nies, Donald E. Vick oHG mit Sitz/based in Frankfurt am Main (Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main HRA 50297) Pers. haftender Gesellschafter/Partner liable to unlimited extent: Cincom Systems Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRB 5069) --- CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT --- This e-mail transmission contains information that is intended to be privileged and confidential. It is intended only for the addressee named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited, please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. Von: Alexandre Bergel [mailto:alexandre.bergel@me.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 12. April 2019 19:08 An: Bernhard Höfner <bernhard.hoefner(a)web.de> Cc: VisualWorks mailing list list <vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu>; pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org Betreff: Re: [vwnc] most energy efficient AI system - challenge of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF Hello, We conducted some experiment in characterizing virtual machine from an energetic point of view. Results are not public yet. This is just to say this is a topic that I am interested in. Cheers, Alexandre On Apr 11, 2019, at 5:29 PM, Bernhard Höfner <bernhard.hoefner(a)web.de<mailto:bernhard.hoefner@web.de>> wrote: Hello Group, the German BMBF advertised a reward for the most energy efficient AI system, see: https://www.bmbf.de/de/mehr-ki-erfordert-weniger-energie-8156.html (in German), and I am wondering what is the position of Smalltalk in that field or what it could be. From the early 90th I know that much of the pretended slowness of Smalltalk was absorbed by the more efficient programs due to better analysis, concepts, design and development tools (and maybe developers ? ). Best Regards, Bernhard

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SPLASH'19 Combined Call, final CfP for OOPSLA'19, Onward!
by Aggelos Biboudis March 27, 2019

March 27, 2019

/****************************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'19) Athens, Greece Sun 20 - Fri 25 October 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/ Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /****************************************************************************/ SPLASH is the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity. SPLASH embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery, to make it the premier conference on the applications of programming languages--at the intersection of programming languages and software engineering. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. Combined Call for Papers: * PACMPL Issue OOPSLA 2019--final call * Onward! Papers--final call * Onward! Essays--final call * SPLASH-I * Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) * Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) * Software Language Engineering (SLE) * Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR) * SPLASH-E * Doctoral Symposium * Student Research Competition * Workshops * Posters * Student Volunteers ## PACMPL Issue OOPSLA 2019 PACMPL Issue OOPSLA 2019 seeks contributions on all aspects of programming languages and software engineering. Authors of papers published in PACMPL Issue OOPSLA 2019 will present their work at OOPSLA in Athens. Papers may target any stage of software development, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, and reuse of software systems. Contributions may include the development of new tools (such as language front-ends, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, and code organization approaches), new principles (such as formalisms, proofs, models, and paradigms), and new evaluations (such as experiments, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions due: Fri 5 Apr, 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-oopsla ## Onward! Papers Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities, and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. Submissions due: Mon 22 April, 2019 https://2019.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2019-papers (transitioning to https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-Onward-papers) ## Onward! Essays Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be long or short. An essay can be an exploration of the topic and its impact, or a story about the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps the one the author took to reach an understanding of the topic. The subject area—software, programming, and programming languages—should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Submissions due: Mon 22 April, 2019 https://2019.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2019-Onward-Essays (transitioning to https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-Onward-Essays) ## SPLASH-I SPLASH-I is a series of high-quality talks that highlight the challenges that are on the forefront of both research and practice across the SPLASH community's broad spectrum of domains and techniques. We invite the community to propose speakers (including themselves) through our call for contributions. Submissions due: Fri May 17, 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-SPLASH-I ## Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) Dynamic Languages, from Lisp, Snobol, and Smalltalk to Python, Racket, and Javascript, have been playing a fundamental role both in programming research and practice. DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share research and experience on all aspects of Dynamic Languages. DLS invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages. Abstracts due: Wed 29 May, 2019 Submissions due: Wed 5 Jun, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/dls-2019 ## Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experience (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and metaprogramming. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to (i) program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, (ii) domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, (iii) feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, (iv) applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Abstracts due: Fri 14 Jun, 2019 Submissions due: Fri 21 Jun, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2019 ## Software Language Engineering (SLE) Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the discipline of engineering languages and their tools required for the creation of software. It abstracts from the differences between programming languages, modelling languages, and other software languages, and emphasizes the engineering facet of the creation of such languages, that is, the establishment of the scientific methods and practices that enable the best results. SLE 2019 solicits high quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions, to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of software language engineering. Abstracts due: Fri 14 Jun, 2019 Submissions due: Fri 21 Jun, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2019 ## Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR) The International Conference on Managed Programming Languages & Runtimes (MPLR, formerly ManLang) is a premier forum for presenting and discussing novel results in all aspects of managed programming languages and runtime systems, which serve as building blocks for some of the most important computing systems around, ranging from small-scale (embedded and real-time systems) to large-scale (cloud-computing and big-data platforms) and anything in between (mobile, IoT, and wearable applications). Submissions due: Mon July 8, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/mplr-2019 ## SPLASH-E SPLASH-E is a track focused on education-related challenges, innovations, and best practices in all areas covered by the SPLASH conference. We welcome a broad range of submissions including those that report on experiences, research results, innovative teaching approaches, and pedagogical reflection. Submissions due: Fri July 12, 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-SPLASH-E ## Doctoral Symposium The SPLASH Doctoral Symposium provides students with useful guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research careers. The symposium will provide an interactive forum for doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal, but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 12 months. This year, the John Vlissides Award will be presented to a symposium participant showing significant promise in applied software research. All participants to the Doctoral Symposium are eligible. The award includes a prize of $2,000. Submissions due: Fri 12 Jul, 2019 http://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-Doctoral-Symposium ## Student Research Competition The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for ACM student members at the undergraduate and graduate levels to present their original research at SPLASH before a panel of judges and conference attendees. The SRC gives visibility to not only up-and-coming young researchers, but also exposes them to the field of computer science research and its community. This competition also gives students an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and to help them sharpen their communication and networking skills. Student Research Competition abstract due: Fri July 12, 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-SRC ## Workshops Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH 2019 will host a variety of high-quality workshops, allowing their participants to meet and discuss research questions with peers, to mature new and exciting ideas, and to build up communities and start new collaborations. SPLASH workshops complement the main tracks of the conference and provide meetings in a smaller and more specialized setting. Workshops cultivate new ideas and concepts for the future, optionally recorded in formal proceedings. The paper submission deadline for all workshops is Aug 2, 2019 AoE. The following workshops are co-located with SPLASH 2019. (Some pages not yet public.) * AGERE (Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control) https://2019.splashcon.org/home/agere-2019 * AI-SEPS (AI-Inspired and Empirical Methods for Software Engineering on Parallel Computing Systems) https://2019.splashcon.org/home/seps-2019 * DSM (Domain-Specific Modeling) https://2019.splashcon.org/home/dsm-2019 * IC (Incremental Computations) https://2019.splashcon.org/home/ic-2019 * LIVE (Live Programming) https://2019.splashcon.org/home/live-2019 * META (Metaprogramming) https://2019.splashcon.org/home/meta-2019 * NJR (Normalized Java Resource) https://2019.splashcon.org/home/njr-2019 * REBLS (Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems) https://2019.splashcon.org/home/rebls-2019 * STOKED https://2019.splashcon.org/home/stoked-2019 * VMIL (Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages) https://2019.splashcon.org/home/vmil-2019 ## Posters The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact at any desired level of detail. The poster session is held early in the conference to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Submissions due: Sat 7 Sep, 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-Posters ## Student Volunteers The SPLASH Student Volunteers program provides an opportunity for students from around the world to associate with some of the leading personalities in industry and research in the following areas: programming languages, object-oriented technology and software development. Student volunteers contribute to the smooth running of the conference by performing tasks such as: assisting with registration, providing information about the conference to attendees, assisting session organizers and monitoring sessions. Detailed information on how to apply will be available on the main conference page in March 2019. Estimated deadline for the SV applications will be towards the end of September 2019. https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-Student-Volunteers ## Information Contact: publicity at splashcon.org Website: https://2019.splashcon.org/ Location: Royal Olympic Hotel, Athens, Greece ## Organization SPLASH General Chair: * Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Athens) OOPSLA Review Committee Chair: * Eelco Visser (Delft University of Technology) Onward! Papers Chair: * Hidehiko Masuhara (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Onward! Essays Chair: * Tomas Petricek (Alan Turing Institute) DLS Program Chair: * Stefan Marr (University of Kent) GPCE General Chair: * Ina Schaefer (Technische Universität Braunschweig) GPCE Program Chair: * Tijs van der Storm (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica / University of Groningen) SLE General Chair: * Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Bern) SLE Program Co-Chairs: * Bruno Oliveira (University of Hong Kong) * Jeff Gray (University of Alabama) SLE Publicity Chair: * Andrei Chiş (Feenk GmbH, Switzerland) SLE AEC Co-Chairs: * Emma Söderberg (Lund University) * Abel Gomez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) MPLR General Chair: * Tony Hosking (Australian National University / Data61) MPLR Program Chair: * Irene Finocchi (Sapienza University of Rome) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: * Shan Shan Huang (Facebook) * Michael Carbin (MIT) SPLASH-E Chair: * Elisa Baniassad (University of British Columbia) Workshops Co-Chairs: * Arjun Guha (University of Massachusetts Amherst) * Neville Grech (University of Athens, University of Malta) OOPSLA Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: * Colin S. Gordon (Drexel University) * Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) Posters Chair: * Christoph Reichenbach (Lund University) Doctoral Symposium Chair: * Éric Tanter (University of Chile & Inria Paris) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: * Jay McCarthy (University of Massachusetts Lowell) * David Darais (University of Vermont) Student Volunteers Co-Chairs: * Juliana Franco (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) * Tony Antoniadis (University of Athens) Publications Chair: * Magnus Madsen (Aarhus University) Publicity Co-Chairs: * Aggelos Biboudis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) * Tijs van der Storm (CWI / University of Groningen) Local Arrangements Chair: * George Fourtounis (University of Athens) Accessibility Chair: * Kostas Saidis (University of Athens) Sponsorships Co-Chairs: * Caitlin Sadowski (Google) * Jaeheon Yi (Google) Video Co-Chairs: * Benjamin Chung (Northeastern University) * Sifis Lagouvardos (University of Athens) Web Co-Chairs: * Aggelos Biboudis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) * Aviral Goel (Northeastern University) /****************************************************************************/

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Special Issue on Smalltalk Technologies
by Stéphane Ducasse March 26, 2019

March 26, 2019

Special Issue on Smalltalk Technologies https://www.journals.elsevier.com/science-of-computer-programming <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/science-of-computer-programming> Guest Editors: Loïc Lagadec (Coordinator) Ensta Bretagne, Lab-STICC Anne Etien Université de Lille, CRIStAL, UMR9189 Jannik Laval Université Lumière Lyon 2, DISP, EA 4570 Theme Smalltalk is an exciting object‐oriented language in which even primitive values are uniformly handled as normal objects, described by classes that one can browse, inspect and extend. Smalltalk was born during the seventies, still the ideas behind the currently available implementations are often at the edge of innovation. Smalltalk benefits from being a highly expressive language in which complex and powerful systems can emerge from the composition of simple building blocks. Thanks to its dynamic nature, fast prototyping and agile software development are made possible. Smalltalk is not only a simple and pure dynamic object-oriented language, but is also a programmable system with processes, its own user interface and a complete Interactive Development Environment (IDE). Smalltalk is a reflexive system, with all its elements being implemented in Smalltalk, which benefits from powerful meta‐programming facilities. This means that elements can be extended, customized or adapted according to particular contexts, that the Smalltalk IDE itself can be used to implement, validate and debug the Smalltalk system extensions, and that a program is able to query and to change its own structure and behaviour. In this context, the research topics that relate to Smalltalk technologies are large, and need to receive more attention and research effort, considering that Smalltalk has established itself as a test bed for software engineering theories and tools. TOPICS include:  Aspect-oriented programming,  Design patterns,  Experience reports,  Frameworks,  Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk,  Interaction with other languages,  Meta-programming and Meta-modelling,  Tools Important Dates: • Apr. 30, 2019 Full paper submission due • Aug.31, 2019 Paper acceptance decision • Sep.15, 2019 Camera-ready paper due

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[CfP] DLS 2019 - 15th Dynamic Languages Symposium, co-located with SPLASH 2019
by Nick Papoylias March 23, 2019

March 23, 2019

======================================================================== Call for Papers DLS 2019 - 15th Dynamic Languages Symposium Co-located with SPLASH 2019, October 22, Athens, Greece https://conf.researchr.org/home/dls-2019 Follow us @dynlangsym ======================================================================== Dynamic Languages play a fundamental role in today’s world of software, from the perspective of research and practice. Languages such as JavaScript, R, and Python are vehicles for cutting edge research as well as building widely used products and computational tools. The 15th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at SPLASH 2019 is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share research and experience on all aspects on dynamic languages. DLS 2019 invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages. Areas of interest are generally empirical studies, language design, implementation, and runtimes, which includes but is not limited to: - innovative language features - innovative implementation techniques - innovative applications - development environments and tools - experience reports and case studies - domain-oriented programming - late binding, dynamic composition, and run-time adaptation - reflection and meta-programming - software evolution - language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages - dynamic optimization - interpretation, just-in-time and ahead-of-time compilation - soft/optional/gradual typing - hardware support - educational approaches and perspectives - semantics of dynamic languages - frameworks and languages for the Cloud and the IoT Submission Details ------------------ Submissions must neither be previously published nor under review at other events. DLS 2019 uses a single-blind, two-phase reviewing process. Papers are assumed to be in one of the following categories: Research Papers: describe work that advances the current state of the art Experience Papers: describe insights gained from substantive practical applications that should be of a broad interest Dynamic Pearls: describe a known idea in an appealing way to remind the community and capture a reader’s interest The program committee will evaluate each paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, and originality. The paper category needs to be indicated during submission, and papers are judged accordingly. Papers are to be submitted electronically at https://dls19.hotcrp.com/ in PDF format. Submissions must be in the ACM SIGPLAN conference acmart format, 10 point font, and should not exceed 12 pages. Please see full details in the instructions for authors available at: https://conf.researchr.org/home/dls-2019#Instructions-for-Authors DLS 2019 will run a two-phase reviewing process to help authors make their final papers the best that they can be. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library and will be freely available for one month, starting two weeks before the event. Important Deadlines ------------------- Abstract Submission: May 29, 2019 Paper Submission: June 5, 2019 First Phase Notification: July 3, 2019 Final Notifications: August 14, 2019 Camera Ready: August 28, 2019 All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (UTC-12h). AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Program Committee ----------------- Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Chris Seaton, Oracle Labs David Chisnall, Microsoft Research Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Gregor Richards, University of Waterloo Guido Chari, Czech Technical University Hannes Payer, Google James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow Joe Gibbs Politz, University of California San Diego Juan Fumero, The University of Manchester Julien Ponge, Red Hat Mandana Vaziri, IBM Research Manuel Serrano, Inria Marc Feeley, Université de Montréal Mark Marron, Microsoft Research Na Meng, Virginia Tech Nick Papoulias, Université Grenoble Alpes Richard Roberts, Victoria University of Wellington Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University Sarah Mount, Aston University Sébastien Doeraene, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne William Cook, University of Texas at Austin Program Chair ------------- Stefan Marr, University of Kent, United Kingdom

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Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [ANN] Lan.d.s Alpha: All Along the Language Tower
by Stéphane Ducasse March 17, 2019

March 17, 2019

Hi nick I wanted to support your chapters via paypal but it asked me about my visa and I would like to pay via my paypal account. Do you know if this is possible? Else can you send me your pp account? Stef > On 17 Mar 2019, at 10:21, Nick Papoylias <npapoylias(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear friends ! > > I am quite excited to announce the availability of an alpha version > of my latest work around Parsing and Programming Languages at: > > https://npapoylias.gitlab.io/lands-project/ <https://npapoylias.gitlab.io/lands-project/> > > Accompanied by ~ 30 min of transcribed eye-candy: > > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIjPQnRzAKVHABG1-oTvwWc3Gj1Z4C91B <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIjPQnRzAKVHABG1-oTvwWc3Gj1Z4C91B> > > Backed by a crowdfunding campaign ! To get the book and stable release > successfully out of the door: > > https://www.patreon.com/lands_project <https://www.patreon.com/lands_project> > https://npapoylias.gitlab.io/lands-project/Support/ <https://npapoylias.gitlab.io/lands-project/Support/> > > Click, download, watch, enjoy ! If you like what you see, support the project ! Tiers > start from 5 and 10 euros per chapter for individuals. Companies supporting > the project can get 6 to 12 days of consultancy, on-site workshops and other perks. > > ================= > > What is all about ?? > > Lan.d.s is a new solution for language design. From general purpose > languages like Lise (short for (list (embedding)) to Domain-Specific > Languages using the MOODs framework, and everything else in between. > Lan.d.s is build around the formalism of Multi-Ordered Grammars, > which are a possible alternative to CFGs and PEGs in wider use today. > > Multi-ordered grammars (or simply MOGs) aim for a better exploration of ambiguity, > recursion, ordering and associativity during language design. They can be parsed using the > Gray Algorithm. After parsing in order to ease the production of executable code > Lan.d.s introduces the Abstract Syntax Language (ASL), which is an OO > solution for compile-time meta-programming. Finally in order to promote > language extension and re-use, Lan.d.s employs GrammarTraits, as units of > composition for both MOG rules and ASL actions. > > ================= > > Some random highlights for the impatient: > > > * Object subclass: #Prediction uses: Future syntax > > * Languages are everywhere, they are all around you, even now in this very sentence. > > * Study SICP with a Xerox flavor, while re-inventing some Bell-labs utilities. > > * TOC-Board, the TOC for your next talk ;) > > > Enjoy ! > <Theory-and-Applications-Of-Multi-Ordered-Grammars.pdf><Lands-Alpha-All-Along-The-Language-Tower.png> -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 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

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[ANN] Lan.d.s Alpha: All Along the Language Tower
by Nick Papoylias March 17, 2019

March 17, 2019

*Dear friends ! * I am quite excited to announce the availability of an alpha version of my latest work around *Parsing and Programming Languages* at: https://npapoylias.gitlab.io/lands-project/ Accompanied by ~ *30 min of transcribed eye-candy:* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIjPQnRzAKVHABG1-oTvwWc3Gj1Z4C91B Backed by *a crowdfunding campaign* ! To get the *book and stable release * successfully out of the door: https://www.patreon.com/lands_project https://npapoylias.gitlab.io/lands-project/Support/ *Click, download, watch, enjoy !* If you like what you see, support the project ! Tiers start *from 5 and 10 euros per chapter for individuals.* Companies supporting the project can get *6 to 12 days of consultancy, on-site workshops and other perks.* ================= *What is all about ??* *Lan.d.s is a new solution for language design.* From *general purpose * *languages* like *Lise* (short for (list (embedding)) to *Domain-Specific * *Languages using the MOODs framework*, and everything else in between. Lan.d.s is build around the formalism of *Multi-Ordered Grammars, * *which are a possible alternative to CFGs and PEGs in wider use today. * Multi-ordered grammars (or simply MOGs) aim for a better exploration of ambiguity, recursion, ordering and associativity during language design. They can be *parsed using the * *Gray Algorithm.* After parsing in order to ease the production of executable code Lan.d.s introduces the* Abstract Syntax Language (ASL),* which is an OO solution for compile-time meta-programming. Finally in order to promote language extension and re-use, Lan.d.s employs *GrammarTraits, as units of * *composition for both MOG rules and ASL actions.* ================= Some random highlights for the impatient: ** Object subclass: #Prediction uses: Future syntax* ** Languages are everywhere, they are all around you, even now in this very sentence.* ** Study SICP with a Xerox flavor, while re-inventing some Bell-labs utilities.* ** TOC-Board, the TOC for your next talk ;)* Enjoy !

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GPCE 2019: 1st Call for Papers - Athens, Greece; October 21-22
by Rodin Aarssen March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS 18th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2019) October 21-22, 2019 Athens, Greece (co-located with SPLASH 2019) https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2019 http://twitter.com/GPCECONF http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: June 14, 2019 * Submission of papers: June 21, 2019 * Paper notification: August 9, 2019 Submission site: https://gpce19.hotcrp.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE GPCE is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and metaprogramming. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to: * program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, * domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, * feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, * applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Authors are welcome to check with the program co-chairs whether their planned papers are in scope. PAPER SELECTION The GPCE program committee will evaluate each submission according to the following selection criteria: * Novelty. Papers must present new ideas or evidence and place them appropriately within the context established by previous research in the field. * Significance. The results in the paper must have the potential to add to the state of the art or practice in significant ways. * Evidence. The paper must present evidence supporting its claims. Examples of evidence include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems, experimental results, statistical analyses, and case studies. * Clarity. The paper must present its contributions and results clearly. PAPER CATEGORIES GPCE solicits three kinds of submissions. * Full Papers reporting original and unpublished results of research that contribute to scientific knowledge in any GPCE topic listed above. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography. * Short Papers presenting unconventional ideas or visions about any GPCE topic listed above. Short papers do not always require complete results as in the case of a full paper. In this way, authors can introduce new ideas to the community and get early feedback. Please note that short papers are not intended to be position statements. Short papers are included in the proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Short paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages excluding bibliography. * Tool Demonstrations presenting tools for any GPCE topic listed above. Tools must be available for use and must not be purely commercial. Submissions must provide a tool description not exceeding 6 pages excluding bibliography and a separate demonstration outline including screenshots also not exceeding 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords "Tool Demo" or "Tool Demonstration" in their title. If the submission is accepted, the tool description will be published in the proceedings. The demonstration outline will only be used by the program committee for evaluating the submission. PAPER SUBMISSION All submissions must use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart", using the "sigplan" sub-format, and 10 point font. Additional details and links to templates and the LaTeX class file can be found on the conference web site: https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2019. To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. GPCE will follow a very lightweight model, where author identities are revealed to reviewers after submitting their initial reviews. Hence, the purpose is not to conceal author identities at all cost, but merely to provide reviewers with an unbiased first look at a submission. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors' own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. Papers must be submitted using HotCRP: https://gpce19.hotcrp.com/ For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the program co-chairs. ORGANIZATION Chairs * General chair: Ina Schaefer (TU Braunschweig) * Program co-chair: Christoph Reichenbach (Lund University) * Program co-chair: Tijs van der Storm (CWI / University of Groningen) Program Committee * Jonathan Aldrich (CMU) * Juliana Alves Pereira (University Rennes) * Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto) * Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo) * Thomas Degueule (CWI) * Sebastian Erdweg (TU Delft) * Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) * Robert Glück (University of Copenhagen) * Elisa Gonzalez Boix (VUB) * Geoffrey Mainland (Drexel University) * Chris Martens (NCSU) * Maryam Mehri Dehnavi (University of Toronto) * Peter Mosses (Swansea University / TU Delft) * David Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington) * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) * Larissa Rocha Soares (Federal University of Bahia) * Ulrik Schultz (University of Southern Denmark) * Sandro Schulze (University of Magdeburg) * Christoph Seidl (TU Braunschweig) * Michel Steuwer (University of Glasgow) * Sam Tobin Hochstadt (Indiana University) * Kanae Tsushima (National Institute of Informatics) * Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh) * Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University) * Adam Welc (Uber) * Peng Wu (Huawei)

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Smalltalk Job offer at CGI in France
by Stéphane Ducasse March 9, 2019

March 9, 2019

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SPLASH 2019: 2nd Combined Call for Contributions
by Aggelos Biboudis March 5, 2019

March 5, 2019

/****************************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'19) Athens, Greece Sun 20 - Fri 25 October 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/ Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /****************************************************************************/ COMBINED CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS OOPSLA Onward! Workshops Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) Software Language Engineering (SLE) Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR) /****************************************************************************/ SPLASH is the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity. SPLASH embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery, to make it the premier conference on the applications of programming languages--at the intersection of programming languages and software engineering. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. Combined Call for Contributions: * SPLASH Workshops * PACMPL Issue OOPSLA 2019 * Onward! Papers * Onward! Essays * Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) * Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) * Software Language Engineering (SLE) * Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR) * SPLASH-I * Posters * Doctoral Symposium * Student Research Competition * Student Volunteers ## SPLASH Workshops Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH 2019 will host a variety of high quality workshops, allowing their participants to meet and discuss research questions with peers, to mature new and exciting ideas, and to build up communities and start new collaborations. SPLASH workshops complement the main tracks of the conference and provide meetings in a smaller and more specialized setting. Workshops cultivate new ideas and concepts for the future, optionally recorded in formal proceedings. Submissions are currently being accepted on a rolling basis. The rolling call will close on Fri 15 Mar, 2019. https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-workshops ## PACMPL Issue OOPSLA 2019 Papers may target any stage of software development, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, and reuse of software systems. Contributions may include the development of new tools (such as language front-ends, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, and code organization approaches), new principles (such as formalisms, proofs, models, and paradigms), and new evaluations (such as experiments, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions due: Fri 5 Apr, 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-oopsla ## Onward! Papers Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities, and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. Submissions due: Mon 22 April, 2019 https://2019.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2019-papers (transitioning to https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-Onward-papers) ## Onward! Essays Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be long or short. An essay can be an exploration of the topic and its impact, or a story about the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps the one the author took to reach an understanding of the topic. The subject area—software, programming, and programming languages—should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Submissions due: Mon 22 April, 2019 https://2019.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2019-Onward-Essays (transitioning to https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-Onward-Essays) ## Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) Dynamic Languages, from Lisp, Snobol, and Smalltalk to Python, Racket, and Javascript, have been playing a fundamental role both in programming research and practice. DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share research and experience on all aspects of Dynamic Languages. DLS invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages. Abstracts due: Wed 29 May, 2019 Submissions due: Wed 5 Jun, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/dls-2019 ## Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experience (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and metaprogramming. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to (i) program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, (ii) domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, (iii) feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, (iv) applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Abstracts due: Fri 14 Jun, 2019 Submissions due: Fri 21 Jun, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2019 ## Software Language Engineering (SLE) Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the discipline of engineering languages and their tools required for the creation of software. It abstracts from the differences between programming languages, modelling languages, and other software languages, and emphasizes the engineering facet of the creation of such languages, that is, the establishment of the scientific methods and practices that enable the best results. SLE 2019 solicits high quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions, to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of software language engineering. Abstracts due: Fri 14 Jun, 2019 Submissions due: Fri 21 Jun, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2019 ## Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR) The International Conference on Managed Programming Languages & Runtimes (MPLR, formerly ManLang) is a premier forum for presenting and discussing novel results in all aspects of managed programming languages and runtime systems, which serve as building blocks for some of the most important computing systems around, ranging from small-scale (embedded and real-time systems) to large-scale (cloud-computing and big-data platforms) and anything in between (mobile, IoT, and wearable applications). Submissions due: Mon July 8, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/mplr-2019 ## SPLASH-I SPLASH-I is a series of high-quality talks that highlight the challenges that are on the forefront of both research and practice across the SPLASH community's broad spectrum of domains and techniques. We invite the community to propose speakers (including themselves) through our call for contributions. Submissions due: Fri May 17, 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-SPLASH-I ## Posters The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact at any desired level of detail. The poster session is held early in the conference to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Submissions due: Sat 7 Sep, 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-Posters ## Doctoral Symposium The SPLASH Doctoral Symposium provides students with useful guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research careers. The symposium will provide an interactive forum for doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal, but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 12 months. This year, the John Vlissides Award will be presented to a symposium participant showing significant promise in applied software research. All participants to the Doctoral Symposium are eligible. The award includes a prize of $2,000. Submissions due: Fri 12 Jul, 2019 http://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-Doctoral-Symposium ## Student Research Competition The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for ACM student members at the undergraduate and graduate levels to present their original research at SPLASH before a panel of judges and conference attendees. The SRC gives visibility to not only up-and-coming young researchers, but also exposes them to the field of computer science research and its community. This competition also gives students an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and to help them sharpen their communication and networking skills. Student Research Competition abstract due: Fri July 12, 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-SRC ## Student Volunteers The SPLASH Student Volunteers program provides an opportunity for students from around the world to associate with some of the leading personalities in industry and research in the following areas: programming languages, object-oriented technology and software development. Student volunteers contribute to the smooth running of the conference by performing tasks such as: assisting with registration, providing information about the conference to attendees, assisting session organizers and monitoring sessions. Detailed information on how to apply will be available on the main conference page in March 2019. Estimated deadline for the SV applications will be towards the end of September 2019. https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-Student-Volunteers ## Information Contact: publicity at splashcon.org Website: https://2019.splashcon.org/ Location: Royal Olympic Hotel, Athens, Greece ## Organization SPLASH General Chair: * Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Athens) OOPSLA Review Committee Chair: * Eelco Visser (Delft University of Technology) Onward! Papers Chair: * Hidehiko Masuhara (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Onward! Essays Chair: * Tomas Petricek (Alan Turing Institute) DLS Program Chair: * Stefan Marr (University of Kent) GPCE General Chair: * Ina Schaefer (Technische Universität Braunschweig) GPCE Program Chair: * Tijs van der Storm (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica / University of Groningen) SLE General Chair: * Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Bern) SLE Program Co-Chairs: * Bruno Oliveira (University of Hong Kong) * Jeff Gray (University of Alabama) SLE Publicity Chair: * Andrei Chiş (Feenk GmbH, Switzerland) SLE AEC Co-Chairs: * Emma Söderberg (Lund University) * Abel Gomez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) MPLR General Chair: * Tony Hosking (Australian National University / Data61) MPLR Program Chair: * Irene Finocchi (Sapienza University of Rome) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: * Shan Shan Huang (Facebook) * Michael Carbin (MIT) Workshops Co-Chairs: * Arjun Guha (University of Massachusetts Amherst) * Neville Grech (University of Athens, University of Malta) OOPSLA Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: * Colin S. Gordon (Drexel University) * Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) Posters Chair: * Christoph Reichenbach (Lund University) Doctoral Symposium Chair: * Éric Tanter (University of Chile & Inria Paris) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: * Jay McCarthy (University of Massachusetts Lowell) * David Darais (University of Vermont) Student Volunteers Co-Chairs: * Juliana Franco (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) * Tony Antoniadis (University of Athens) Publications Chair: * Magnus Madsen (Aarhus University) Publicity Co-Chairs: * Aggelos Biboudis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) * Tijs van der Storm (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica / University of Groningen) Local Arrangements Chair: * George Fourtounis (University of Athens) Accessibility Chair: * Kostas Saidis (University of Athens) Sponsorships Co-Chairs: * Caitlin Sadowski (Google) * Jaeheon Yi (Google) Video Chair: * Benjamin Chung (Northeastern University) Web Co-Chairs: * Aggelos Biboudis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) * Aviral Goel (Northeastern University) /****************************************************************************/

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