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IWST Paper Submission Deadline is Approaching!
by Guillermo Polito May 10, 2024

May 10, 2024

Dear community, IWST invites everybody to submit full/short papers to be considered to be plublished in the IWST 2024 Proceedings. Papers can both be presented in the conference's IWST track and appear in proceedings independently of the initially submitted abstracts. Full/short paper submission deadline: May 19th, 2024 We are looking for papers of two kinds: - Short position papers (5 to 10 pages) describing fresh ideas and early results. - Full papers (more than 10 pages) with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Paper accepted for publishing will be published within a *CEUR-WS Proceedings>https://ceur-ws.org/*. Hence, both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the *CEUR ART style>https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip*. We recommend to use the template in single column style, although you may use two colums. CEUR proceedings accepts papers in boths styles as soon as they follow the template and have 5 or more pages. The IWST team, Gordana, Guille and Steven https://esug.org/2024-Conference/IWST2024.html

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[ANN] Soil release v1
by Norbert Hartl May 8, 2024

May 8, 2024

...we said at last ESUG that there will be a release soonish but as usual it doesn't go that fast. But now we are very happy to announce that Soil has a first public release v1. So what is soil? Soil is an object oriented database in pharo <http://pharo.org/>. It is transaction based having ACID transactions. It has binary search capabilities with SkipList and BTree+ indexes. It aims to be a simple yet powerful database making it easy to develop with, easy to debug with, easy to inspect, ... More details at https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil This release is still considered early stage because although in ApptiveGrid there are over 4000 instances of it and there are other users there isn't a wider range of use cases, yet. So it is not fully battle tested. This just as reminder when you start compaining I need somewhere to point my finger to and say "I told you!" ;) there are few things missing that you might expect like garbage collection, etc. So but it is definetely usable and awaiting the brave ones of you to try. Hopy you enjoy it! Norbert & Marcus

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CfP: The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming Journal volume 9
by Jonathan Edwards May 8, 2024

May 8, 2024

The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming accepts papers that advance knowledge of programming. Almost anything about programming is in scope, but there should be a clear relevance to the act and experience of programming. Papers must be written in a scholarly form, contextualizing their ideas with prior research and practice. We accept descriptions of work under different perspectives: Art: knowledge and technical skills acquired through practice and personal experiences. Examples include libraries, frameworks, languages, APIs, programming models and styles, programming pearls, and essays about programming. Science (Theoretical): knowledge and technical skills acquired through mathematical formalisms. Examples include formal programming models and proofs. Science (Empirical): knowledge and technical skills acquired through experiments and systematic observations. Examples include user studies and programming-related data mining. Engineering: knowledge and technical skills acquired through designing and building large systems and through calculated application of principles in building those systems. Examples include measurements of artifacts’ properties, development processes and tools, and quality assurance methods. The remaining submission deadlines for Volume 9 are June 1 and October 1. For further details see the official CfP <https://programming-journal.org/cfp/>.

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Re: [Pharo-users] Re: Re: [ANN] Soil release v1
by Sabine M May 8, 2024

May 8, 2024

I am always thinking of this movie when hearing „Soil“. Googling for it now, I see that it has another spelling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green Gesendet von Outlook für iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ Von: Cody Sevier <sevierit(a)gmail.com> Gesendet: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 5:43:24 PM An: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> Cc: Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name>; Dirk Nel <dirkockertnel(a)gmail.com>; Pharo Dev <pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org>; Tetaz, Jean-Pierre via Esug-list <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org> Betreff: [Pharo-users] Re: [Esug-list] Re: [ANN] Soil release v1 Or soiling yourself, aka incontinence... Isn't English illogical fun! Cody On Wed, May 8, 2024, 10:41 AM Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs(a)gemtalksystems.com<mailto:dale.henrichs@gemtalksystems.com>> wrote: To me as a non-native speaker it means: ground layer you can build/grow on Haha, Soil can also be thought of as "ground up stone" :) Dale On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 7:13 AM Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name<mailto:norbert@hartl.name>> wrote: Am 06.05.2024 um 16:47 schrieb Dirk Nel <dirkockertnel(a)gmail.com<mailto:dirkockertnel@gmail.com>>: I'll definitely check it out..! and for those who are not in the know... what inspired the name? :) - I like the word - It has only four letters which qualifies as a class prefix - To me as a non-native speaker it means: ground layer you can build/grow on Norbert On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 17:47, Tim Mackinnon <tim(a)testit.works> wrote: That's really exciting news... appreciate you sharing it with the wider community (I know when you mentioned its existence a while back I went and watched the Esug recordings to get more info, and looked at some of the extensive test cases to get a feel on what it looked like - its neat). Having multiple options for persisting data (from simple Fuel up to Soil and Glorp and Gemstone) is very useful. Tim On Wed, 24 Apr 2024, at 12:52 PM, Norbert Hartl wrote: ...we said at last ESUG that there will be a release soonish but as usual it doesn't go that fast. But now we are very happy to announce that Soil has a first public release v1. So what is soil? Soil is an object oriented database in pharo<http://pharo.org/>. It is transaction based having ACID transactions. It has binary search capabilities with SkipList and BTree+ indexes. It aims to be a simple yet powerful database making it easy to develop with, easy to debug with, easy to inspect, ... More details at https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil This release is still considered early stage because * although in ApptiveGrid there are over 4000 instances of it and there are other users there isn't a wider range of use cases, yet. So it is not fully battle tested. This just as reminder when you start compaining I need somewhere to point my finger to and say "I told you!" ;) * there are few things missing that you might expect like garbage collection, etc. So but it is definetely usable and awaiting the brave ones of you to try. Hopy you enjoy it! Norbert & Marcus _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org<mailto:esug-list@lists.esug.org> To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org<mailto:esug-list-leave@lists.esug.org> _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org<mailto:esug-list@lists.esug.org> To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org<mailto:esug-list-leave@lists.esug.org> _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org<mailto:esug-list@lists.esug.org> To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org<mailto:esug-list-leave@lists.esug.org>

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[ANN] Pharo 12 released !
by Esteban Lorenzano April 26, 2024

April 26, 2024

Dear Pharo users and dynamic language lovers: We have released Pharo <https://pharo.org/> version 12! What is Pharo? Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. * Simple & powerful language: No constructors, no types declaration, no interfaces, no primitive types. Yet a powerful and elegant language with a full syntax fitting in one postcard! Pharo is objects and messages all the way down. * Live, immersive environment: Immediate feedback at any moment of your development: Developing, testing, debugging. Even in production environments, you will never be stuck in compiling and deploying steps again! * Amazing debugging experience: Pharo environment includes a debugger unlike anything you've seen before. It allows you to step through code, restart the execution of methods, create methods on the fly, and much more! * Pharo is yours: Pharo is made by an incredible community, with more than 100 contributors for the last revision of the platform and hundreds of people constantly contributing with frameworks and libraries. * Fully open-source: Pharo full stack is released under MIT <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT> License and available on GitHub <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo> ... more on the Pharo Features page <http://www.pharo.org/features>. In this iteration of Pharo, we continue working on our objectives of improvement, clean-up and modularization. Also, we included a number of usability and speed improvements. A complete list of changes and improvements is available in our Changelog <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo120Chang…> Some highlights of this amazing version: Highlights New breakpoint system The debug point system is a breakpoint model that supersedes the previous implementation of breakpoints and watchpoints. They are configurable, composable, and extensible. The traditional breakpoints remain available, including conditional breakpoints, one-time breakpoints, and object-centric breakpoints. Additionally, there are new types of breakpoints, such as chained-breakpoints, which condition the activation of certain breakpoints on the triggering of others (e.g., breakpoint B only activates if breakpoint A is hit first). Debug points also feature a dedicated browser and integration options. Tools * Scalable fluid class syntax is now the default one * Preparing the introduction of the Bloc graphic system by migrating more tools to Spec2 widgets * Spec2 UI framework enhancements to support GTK 4 * Leaner version of the Metacello package manager * More robust and strict mode for FFI System * New architecture for refactorings and domain specific transformations * Code loading speed improvement * Fast browsing via fully optimized package tags * Optmized memory usage via optimized method protocols * Compiler simplifications and improvements Virtual machine * Massive image support with permanent space * String/ByteArray comparison speed up Development Effort This new version is the result of 1895 Pull Requests integrated just in the Pharo repository. We have closed 865 issues and received contributions from more than 70 different contributors. We have also a lot of work in the separate projects that are included in each Pharo release: * http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools <https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools> * http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser <https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser> * http://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec <https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec> * http://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg <https://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg> * http://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3 <https://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3> * http://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown <https://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown> * http://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments <https://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments> * http://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm> Contributors We always say Pharo is yours. It is yours because we made it for you, but most importantly because it is made by the invaluable contributions of our great community (yourself). A large community of people from all around the world contributed to Pharo 12.0 by making pull requests, reporting bugs, participating in discussion threads, providing feedback, and a lot of helpful tasks in all our community channels. Thank you all for your contributions. The Pharo Team Discover Pharo: https://pharo.org/features Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download <https://pharo.org/download> Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation <https://pharo.org/documentation>

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UKSTUG meeting - Tudor Gîrba: What exactly is Glamorous Toolkit? - 24 April 2024
by UK Smalltalk April 22, 2024

April 22, 2024

To some people Glamorous Toolkit is a Pharo environment. To others it’s a knowledge management system. Others might see a code analysis platform, a data visualization or an API browsing tool. Yet others see the graphical stack with its interactive editors. Glamorous Toolkit is all of these. But it’s really also none of these. These are merely examples of the many forms the environment can be molded to. And there can be many more. Glamorous Toolkit is primarily an environment that makes it possible to create many experiences seamlessly and contextually. This then leads to a new way of programming that we call Moldable Development. Tudor Gîrba is a software environmentalist and the CEO of feenk.com ( http://feenk.com/ ) where he works with an amazing team to make the inside of systems explainable. Much of the work is embodied in Glamorous Toolkit ( gtoolkit.com) a novel environment that enables moldable development. This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/300575234/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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[IWST 2024 NEW Track] Presentations on previously published contributions. new deadline is 30.4.!!!
by Gordana Rakic April 15, 2024

April 15, 2024

Dear ESUG friends, IWST 2024 opened a *Call for Presentations on previously published contributions*. https://esug.org/2024-Conference/IWST-24-preprints.html We invited authors of contributions related to IWST topics, accepted for publication in Journals and Proceedings of top-rated international conferences within the previous 2 years, to submit an abstract and present their published results to the IWST workshop collocated with ESUG. Now, we are happy to *extend the deadline for talk proposals* to the end of this month, *30.04.2024.* If you have a submission that potentially can fit the above criteria soon (submitted with a good potential to be accepted before the conference) , please do not hesitate to propose its presentation. We are looking forward for your talk proposals! IWST team

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Early rate deadline is approaching....
by stephane ducasse April 9, 2024

April 9, 2024

Hello People do not miss this unique opportunity to participate in ESUG in early July https://esug.org Pay attention that the early rate end is approaching… 15 of April 2024. https://registration.esug.org/ESUG Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr 06 30 93 66 73 "If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes

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Call for Presentations @ ESUG 2024
by stephane ducasse April 4, 2024

April 4, 2024

Dear Friends The deadline for the presentation proposal was 1st of April. We extended it until 8th of April. You are probably busy but we the organisers deserve consideration too. ESUG 2024 Call for Presentations from 8 to 11 July 2024 Lille France https://esug.github.io <https://esug.github.io/> https://esug.github.io/2024-Conference/conf2024.html You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: - Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/ - Submit a talk, software to the award competition, or a paper to IWST http://https://esug.github.io/2024-Conference/IWST2024.html - Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of attendance (180 people at Koln 2019)! - Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll in the the Student Volunteers program. See below. ## Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have 30 min for presentations and 45 min for hands-on tutorials. The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials includes, but is not limited to the following: - XP practices, Development tools, Experience reports - Model-driven development, Web development, Team management - Meta-Modeling, Security, New libraries & frameworks - Educational material, Embedded systems and robotics - SOA and Web services, Interaction with other programming languages - Teaching Pearls and Show us Your Business We added two types of sessions in addition to the regular talks and ''Show us your project'' sessions. - Show your business in a 10-minute session (Get prepared!!) - Teaching pearls: we want some sessions on how to teach some design aspects. We want your tip and tricks to teach Smalltalk or OOP. We expect to have several 10 to 15-minute sessions aggregated. ### How to submit? Make a Pull Request here https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2024-Conference/talks [Or but only if you are not connected to the world… send an email to stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>] Title: [ESUG 2024] Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Name: Email: Abstract: Bio:

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IWST 24 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Lille, France; July 8th to 11th, 2024
by Steven Costiou April 1, 2024

April 1, 2024

IWST 24 Information and Call For Papers IWST 24 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Lille, France; July 8th to 11th, 2024 Goals and scope The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around contributions and experiences in building or using technologies related to Smalltalk. While maturity of presented ideas and results is not crucial, it is expected that their presentation triggers discussion and exchange of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Authors are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers. Important Dates * Extended abstract submission deadline: *March 31st, 2024* * Extended abstract notification deadline: April 7th, 2024 * Full/short paper submission deadline: May 19th, 2024 * Full/short paper first-round notification deadline: June 30th, 2024 * Workshop: July 9-10, 2024 * Full/short paper resubmission deadline: July 21st, 2024 * Full/short paper final notification deadline: July 31st, 2024 * Camera ready package submission deadline: August 25th, 2024 Topics We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as: * Code Analysis * Automated Testing * Debugging * Compilers, Virtual Machines and Language implementations * Meta-programming and Meta-modeling * Refactorings * Design patterns * Experience reports * Libraries and frameworks * New dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk * Interaction and integration with other languages * Tools Submissions, reviews, and selection Authors interetsed to present their work at the IWST 2024 are invited to submit an abstract of the intended talk before the extended abstract submission deadline. The extended abstract should be not longer than 2 pages following the CEUR ART style <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip>. Author of the submitted extended abstratcs will be notified and invited to present their work by the extended abstract notification deadline which enables presenters to register at the early registration prices. Authors of the accepted abstracts are also invited to submit a paper to be subject of the review and a potential acceptance for publishing in the IWST 2024 Proceedings. We are looking for papers of two kinds: * Short position papers (5 to 10 pages) describing fresh ideas and early results. * Full research papers (more than 10 pages) with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Paper accepted for publishing will be published within a CEUR-WS Proceedings <cid:part1.33sxixjP.5M6YTbsC@inria.fr>. Hence, both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the CEUR ART style <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip>. All submissions must be sent via EasyChair submission page <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst2024>. Pay attention, for organisation constraints, when submitting your article you are expected to register to the conference and pay the conference fees. Reviewing As the workshop format encourages bringing fresh ideas and early results to be presented and discussed, and aims for giving a chance to young community members to learn and grow, we will allow submissions with a discussion potential to be conditionally accepted. In this case, authors are expected to follow the recommendation of the reviewers. Consequently, the reviewing process will be organized in two rounds: * in the first round, all submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Based on these reviews authors will receive a notification with reviewers comments, advises, and requirements and papers that are not rejected will be invited to be resubmitted in an improved form together with change log and answrers to the reviewers. * in the second round, PC chairs in collaboration with the reviewers where needed and possible, will evaluate the improved paper version and notifiy authors about final decision on acceptance/rejection. *Best Paper Award* To encourage the submission of high-quality ideas, contributions, and papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Award competition in the categories of *best idea*, *best contribution to the community* and *best paper for this edition of IWST*. The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process and by the audience voting during the conference. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event. The Awards will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be eligible, a paper/abstract must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference. Program chairs * Steven Costiou, Inria Lille, France (chair), * Guille Polito, Inria Lille, France (chair), * Gordana Rakic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (chair) Program committee to be published ...

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