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ESUG'15 conference programme
by Johan Fabry May 28, 2015

May 28, 2015

Hi all, I saw that the conference program of ESUG'15 is not online yet :-( When will it be made available? It may incentivize people to register ;-) (Plus it helps me to plan my trip :-) ) ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

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ESUG'15 early registration
by Luc Fabresse May 28, 2015

May 28, 2015

Hi Happy Smalltalkers, ESUG early registration deadline is June, 1st. Please register here: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Conference-Registration Best, #Luc

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SPLASH 2015 - Call for Contributions: Other Tracks
by Craig Anslow May 20, 2015

May 20, 2015

/************************************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'15) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 25th-30th October, 2015 http://www.splashcon.org<http://www.splashcon.org/> Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************************************/ COMBINED CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Demos Doctoral Symposium OOPSLA Artifacts Posters SPLASH-E Student Research Competition Student Volunteers Tutorials Wavefront Workshops Co-Located Conferences: SLE, GPCE, DBPL /************************************************************************************/ 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 at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH is now accepting submissions. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. ** Demos ** The SPLASH Demonstrations track is an excellent vehicle for sharing your latest work with an experienced and technically savvy audience. Live demonstrations show the impact of software innovation. Demonstrations are not product sales pitches, but rather an opportunity to highlight, explain, and present interesting technical aspects of running applications in a dynamic and highly interactive setting. Presenters are encouraged to actively solicit feedback from the audience, which should lead to very interesting and entertaining demonstration sessions. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-demos ** 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. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-ds ** OOPSLA Artifacts ** The Artifact Evaluation process is a service provided by the community to help authors of accepted papers provide more substantial supplements to their papers so future researchers can more effectively build on and compare with previous work. The Artifact Evaluation Committee has been formed to assess how well paper authors prepare artifacts in support of such future researchers. Roughly, authors of papers who wish to participate are invited to submit an artifact that supports the conclusions of the paper. Submissions Due: 9 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-artifacts ** 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. It is held early in the conference, to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Posters can be independent presentations or associated with one of the other parts of SPLASH. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-posters ** SPLASH-E ** The SPLASH-E track brings together researchers and educators to share educational results, ideas, and challenges centered in Software and Programming Languages. Submission formats vary, including papers, tool demos, lightning talks, challenge-topics for discussion, and suggested themes for "unconference" sessions. Help us create an engaging forum for educational issues related to SPLASH! Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-splash-e ** Student Research Competition ** The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition (ACM SRC) is an internationally-recognized venue that enables undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share their research results with other students and SPLASH attendees. The competition has separate categories for undergraduate and graduate students and awards prizes to the top three students in each category. The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition shares the Poster session’s goal to facilitate interaction with researchers and industry practitioners; providing both sides with the opportunity to learn of ongoing, current research. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-src ** Student Volunteers ** The SPLASH Student Volunteer 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. Submissions Due: 7 August, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-sv ** Tutorials ** The SPLASH 2015 Tutorials programme will consist of prestigious tutorials on current topics in software, systems, and languages research. The scope of Tutorials is the same as the conference itself: all aspects of software construction and delivery at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. Tutorials in particular focus on the nexus between research and practice, including work that takes inspiration from or builds connections to areas not commonly considered at SPLASH. Tutorials should introduce researchers to current research in an area, or show important new tools that can be used in research. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-tutorials ** Wavefront ** The SPLASH Wavefront track is looking for presentations and technology talks of interest to the software community, particularly to software professionals working in companies large and small. Wavefront is a forum for presenting experience reports and tutorials about innovative tools, technologies, and software practices. Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-wavefront ** Workshops ** The SPLASH Workshops track 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. Late Phase Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-workshops ** Co-Located Events ** SLE - 8th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) Submissions Due: 15 June, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/sle2015 GPCE - 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) Submissions Due: 15 June, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce2015 DBPL - 15th Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL) Submissions Due: 15 June, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/dbpl2015 PLoP - 22nd International Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) Submissions Due: 12 May, 2015 http://www.hillside.net/plop/2015/ Information: SPLASH Early Registration Deadline: 25 September, 2015 Contact: info(a)splashcon.org<mailto:info@splashcon.org> Website: http://2015.splashcon.org<http://2015.splashcon.org/> Location: Sheraton Station Square Hotel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Organization: SPLASH General Chair: Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University) OOPSLA Papers Chair: Patrick Eugster (Purdue University) Onward! Papers Chair: Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia) Onward! Essays Chair: Guy Steele (Oracle Labs) DLS Papers Chair: Manuel Serrano (INRIA) Artifacts Co-Chairs: Robby Findler (Northwestern University) and Michael Hind (IBM Research) Demos Co-Chair: Igor Peshansky (Google) and Pietro Ferrara (IBM Research) Doctoral Symposium Chair: Yu David Liu, State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton Local Arrangements Chair: Claire Le Goues (Carnegie Mellon University) PLMW Workshop Co-Chairs: Darya Kurilova (Carnegie Mellon University) and Zachary Tatlock (University of Washington) Posters Co-Chairs: Nick Sumner (Simon Fraser University) Publications Chair: Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) Publicity and Web Co-Chairs: Craig Anslow (University of Calgary) and Tijs van der Storm (CWI) SPLASH-E Chair: Eli Tilevich (Virginia Tech) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: Tijs van der Storm (CWI) and Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: Sam Guyer (Tufts University) and Patrick Lam (University of Waterloo) Student Volunteer Co-Chairs: Jonathan Bell (Columbia University) and Daco Harkes (TU Delft) Sponsorship Chair: Tony Hosking (Purdue University) Tutorials Co-Chair: Romain Robbes (University of Chile) and Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia) Video Chair: Michael Hilton (Oregon State University) Videos Previews Czar: Thomas LaToza (University of California, Irvine) Wavefront Co-Chairs: Dennis Mancl (Alcatel-Lucent) and Joe Kiniry (Galois) Web Technology Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) Workshop Co-Chairs: Du Li (Carnegie Mellon University) and Jan Rellermeyer (IBM Research) /************************************************************************************/

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Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) 2015 | Call for Papers
by Robert Hirschfeld May 20, 2015

May 20, 2015

----------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S ----------------------------- ======== DLS 2015 =========== 11th Dynamic Languages Symposium 2015 October, 2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States http://DLS2015.inria.fr Co-located with SPLASH 2015 In association with ACM SIGPLAN The 11th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at SPLASH 2015 is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and research on dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. The influence of dynamic languages -- from Lisp to Smalltalk to Python to Javascript -- on real-world practice and research continues to grow. DLS 2015 invites high quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions, or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library, and freely available for 2 weeks before and after the event itself. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: Innovative language features and implementation techniques Development and platform support, tools Interesting applications Domain-oriented programming Very late binding, dynamic composition, and run-time adaptation Reflection and meta-programming Software evolution Language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages Dynamic optimization Hardware support Experience reports and case studies Educational approaches and perspectives Semantics of dynamic languages == Invited Speaker == DLS is pleased to announce a talk by the following invited speaker: Eelco Visser: Declare your Language. == Submissions and proceedings == Submissions should not have been published previously nor under review at other events. Research papers should describe work that advances the current state of the art. Experience papers should be of broad interest and should describe insights gained from substantive practical applications. The program committee will evaluate each contributed paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, length, and originality. Papers are to be submitted electronically at http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=dls15 in PDF format. Submissions must be in the ACM format (see http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm) and not exceed 12 pages. Authors are reminded that brevity is a virtue. DLS 2015 will run a two-phase reviewing process to help authors make their final papers the best that they can be. After the first round of reviews, papers will be rejected, conditionally accepted, or unconditionally accepted. Conditionally accepted papers will be given a list of issues raised by reviewers. Authors will then submit a revised version of the paper with a cover letter explaining how they have or why they have not addressed these issues. The reviewers will then consider the cover letter and revised paper and recommend final acceptance or rejection. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Important dates Abstract Submissions: Sun 7 Jun 2015 Full Submissions: Sun 15 Jun 2015 First phase notification: Mon 27 Jul Revisions due: Mon 3 Aug Final notification: Mon 17 Aug Camera ready: Fri 21 21 Aug Program chair Manuel Serrano, Inria Sophia-Antipolis, dls15(a)easychair.org Program committee Carl Friedrich Bolz, DE William R. Cook, UTexas, USA Jonathan Edwards, MIT, USA John Field, Google, USA Matt Flatt, USA Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit, BE Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, DE Benjamin Livshits, Microsoft, USA Crista Lopes, UC Irvine, USA Kevin Millikin, Google, DN James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Manuel Serrano, Inria, FR (General chair) Didier Verna, EPITA, FR Jan Vitek, Purdue, USA Joe Politz, Brown University, USA Olivier Tardieu, IBM, USA -- Robert Hirschfeld hirschfeld(a)acm.org www.hirschfeld.org

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Fwd: European Smalltalk Conference 2015
by stephane ducasse May 14, 2015

May 14, 2015

Begin forwarded message: > From: Mike Taylor-Instantiations <mike_taylor(a)instantiations.com> > Subject: European Smalltalk Conference 2015 > Date: 14 May 2015 17:51:26 GMT+2 > To: <board(a)esug.org> > Reply-To: Mike Taylor-Instantiations <mike_taylor(a)instantiations.com> > > Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. > > > > The European Smalltalk Users Group (ESUG) Conference for 2015 will convene in the > beautiful and historic city of Brescia, Italy. Smalltalk users and developers from around the > globe will present papers, discuss technology innovations, network with their fellow > Smalltalkers...and enjoy the wonderful culture of Italy! > > The ESUG Conference is always one of the largest and most important Smalltalk-focused events of > the year and 2015 will be no exception. A full technical program will update you on the latest > Smalltalk-based technologies, products, and open source developments. > > Instantiations will make two presentations during the technical sessions, previewing both our > development plans for the coming year and our exciting new 64-bit virtual machine technology. > > For more information on ESUG 2015 please check out the below: > Conference Home Page-http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015 > Registration-http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Conference-Regi… > (Register by June 1 to get great Early Bird pricing) > More info on Brescia-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brescia > > We hope to see you at ESUG 2015! > > > 1-855-4-SMALLTALK > (1-855-476-2558) > www.instantiations.com > > Instantiations and VA Smalltalk are trademarks of Instantiations, Inc. > This email is intended for those who have an interest in Instantiations' VA Smalltalk. If you do not wish to continue receiving messages from Instantiations please Unsubscribe below. > > Unsubscribe board(a)esug.org from this list | Forward to a friend | Update your profile > > Copyright (C) 2015 INSTANTIATIONS INC All rights reserved. >

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Camp Smalltalk Portland 2015
by Andres Valloud May 7, 2015

May 7, 2015

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ESUG 2015 Early registration is 1st of June
by Stéphane Ducasse April 24, 2015

April 24, 2015

Hi Smalltalkers pay attention ESUG 2015 Early registration is 1st of June http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Conference-Registration 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

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Fwd: The April Edition of the Cincom Smalltalk™ Digest
by Stéphane Ducasse April 24, 2015

April 24, 2015

See you at Brescia :) Begin forwarded message: > From: Cincom Smalltalk Product Team <jjordan(a)cincom.com> > Subject: The April Edition of the Cincom Smalltalk™ Digest > Date: 23 Apr 2015 22:04:07 GMT+3 > To: stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr > Reply-To: jjordan(a)cincom.com > > Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here. > > > Cincom Smalltalk™ Digest April 2015 Edition > > Product News > Product Upgrade — Cincom® ObjectStudio® 8.6.1 and Cincom® VisualWorks® 8.0.1 Now Available to Cincom Smalltalk Customers and Partners! > Product Availability — The Current Personal Use License Versions are Cincom ObjectStudio 8.6 and Cincom VisualWorks 8.0 > Meeting the Demand Challenge — Cincom Smalltalk's Answer to the Web App Development Demand > A Shared Cornerstone — The Cincom Smalltalk Foundation > New and Improved Capabilities — Cincom Smalltalk Foundation Series: Text 2 > Helpful Technical Information — Map/Reduce, Hadoop and Cincom Smalltalk > Simple, Convenient Text Creation — A Transcript Alternative > Performance Considerations — Concurrency and Leveraging Multi-Core PCs: The Solution? MatriX > Task Simplification — Are You Looking to Boost Application Performance? > Common Tools Tutorials — "Common Tools" Tutorial Videos Available > Product Information Tutorials — Product Information Tutorials Available > Product Update — Major Update of Roassal > Smalltalk Achievements > Smalltalk the Winner! — Smalltalk Comes Out on Top in Recent Language Productivity Paper > News and Upcoming Event > April 25-26, 2015 —CampSmalltalk Spring Edition(Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada) > June 12-14, 2015 — Camp Smalltalk Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada) > July 15, 2015 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST15) (Brescia, Italy) > July 13-17, 2015 — The 23rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference (Brescia, Italy) > Also, please note that registration for the conference is now open, and it's the last call for those who would like to be a student volunteer. > The 2016 Canadian Smalltalk Competition > Update on Smalltalk Events > Smalltalk News Repositories > News from the Team > Smalltalk Reflections Podcast > Cincom Smalltalk Community Blogs > Resources > Partner Program > Event Promotion > Contributed Components > User Portal > Social Media Channels > Online Product Information > Academic Program > > > Cherniak Software > > “What had attracted the Cherniak team to Smalltalk were the promised 'huge productivity gains,'" said founder Bob Cherniak. “So our main reasons were what it could do to help us develop quality, robust applications quickly.” > > — Bob Cherniak, > Founder, Cherniak Software > > To see more stories, click here. > Smalltalk Job Opportunities > Cincom Smalltalk Team Seeks VisualWorks Software Engineers > Visit the Smalltalk Jobs Blog > > > > > > Cincom Systems 55 Merchant Street Cincinnati, OH 45246 USA > Cincom, the Quadrant Logo, Cincom Smalltalk, ObjectStudio and VisualWorks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cincom Systems, Inc. > All other trademarks belong to their respective companies. > ©2015 Cincom Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved > > You received this email because you are subscribed to Marketing Information from Cincom Systems. > > Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive. > > Unsubscribe from all future emails > -------------------------------------------- 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

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Internship around Smalltalk
by Stéphane Ducasse April 23, 2015

April 23, 2015

Proposition de stage en informatique – Conception d’un éditeur de diagramme de classes UML pour l’implémentation de modèles multi-agents - Dans le cadre du développement de sa plateforme de modélisation et simulation multi-agent, Cormas (http://cormas.cirad.fr) l’Unité de Recherche GREEN du Cirad (http://ur-green.cirad.fr) propose un stage indemnisé de 6 mois pour un étudiant en informatique pour développer un module de Cormas . Ce développement informatique consiste à mettre au point un éditeur graphique permettant de dessiner un diagramme de classes UML et de générer du code SmallTalk (à la fois en VisualWorks de Cincom et en Pharo, open-source) de la structure du modèle en se référant au standard "Executable UML" (xUML) proposé par Mellor & Balcer (2002) and adopté par l’OMG (2003). Pour ce travail, nous ne cherchons pas un éditeur exhaustif intégrant tous les éléments décrits par UML2. Pour cet éditeur, les éléments du méta-modèle proposés seront limités à : la classe, ses attributs et ses méthodes, la spécialisation de classes et les associations. Les associations sont simples (uniquement binaires) et sont définies par leur nom et par leurs extrémités qui comportent chacune un nom de rôle, une valeur de multiplicité et la navigabilité. Cormas étant un framework, le modèle créé par un utilisateur doit s’ancrer sur des classes prédéfinies disponibles dans Cormas. A la fin de la conception de son modèle, l’utilisateur devra être invité à rattacher les classes qu’il a créées aux classes prédéfinies. Dans ce cas, les propriétés héritées (méthodes, associations, attributs, ...) devront être spécifiées dans le diagramme conceptuel de l’utilisateur qui pourra être affiché de façon indépendante du framework. Outre la création dynamique du squelette des classes, le stagiaire devra porter une attention particulière aux associations entre classes uni ou bi-directionnelles qui seront traduites en attributs nommés selon le rôle de l’extrémité de l’association (on parle parfois de d’association dégénérée pour laquelle le rôle de l’extrémité opposée est traduit en attribut). Ne seront pas prises en compte les classes-associations, ni les associations n-aires, ni les associations qualifiées. Cet éditeur permettra également de ré-afficher un modèle déjà sauvegarder mais aussi de proposer de générer un nouveau diagramme à partir d’un modèle déjà implémenté (rétro-ingénierie). Par ailleurs, un éditeur de diagramme d’activité xUML est déjà disponible dans Cormas. En sélectionnant une méthode de son diagramme de classes, l’utilisateur pourra alors dessiner le comportement de cette méthode en décrivant la succession des activités et des conditions booléennes. Bien que la distribution de VisualWorks s’accompagne de quelques outils permettant des aller-retours entre du code Smalltalk et des diagrammes UML (ADvance, Gipa, BOOST, MetaEdit+, DoME, UMLForSmalltalk ou Umbrello,...), le développement de l’éditeur UML devra se faire sous Roassal. En effet, avec la sortie récente de Roassal2, un moteur puissant de visualisation (http://objectprofile.com/Roassal.html) disponible à la fois pour VisualWorks et pour Pharo, la mise au point de ce module UML permettra d’accélérer la migration de Cormas sous Pharo. En option, il sera intéressant de pouvoir générer le code XML (XMI) d’un modèle pour pouvoir le lire dans un autre éditeur. ______ Durée : 6 mois (ou moins si nécessaire) Gratification : 485,10 € par mois. Lieu : pas d’accueil prévu au Cirad. L’étudiant travaillera dans son laboratoire mais des contacts réguliers seront proposés. Contacts : Pierre Bommel (bommel(a)cirad.fr) et Grégoire Leclerc (Leclerc(a)cirad.fr) [PB1] Profil de candidature : Etudiant en Informatique, License ou Master, ayant un goût pour la modélisation et la simulation. L’étudiant doit avoir de bonnes connaissances des concepts de la modélisation objet et d’UML. Des compétences en programmation Smalltalk devront être acquises. Bommel, P., Dieguez, F., Bartaburu, D., Duarte, E., Montes, E., Pereira, M., Corral, J., Lucena, C. de and Morales Grosskopf, H. (2014). A Further Step Towards Participatory Modelling. Fostering Stakeholder Involvement in Designing Models by Using Executable UML. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 17 (1) 6 <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/17/1/6.html>. Mellor, S. J., & Balcer, M. J. (2002). Executable UML : a foundation for model-driven architecture. Boston; San Francisco; New York: Addison-Wesley. -------------------------------------------- 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

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[ANN] Pharo 4.0 is released!
by Esteban Lorenzano April 18, 2015

April 18, 2015

Please spread widely. Sorry for multiple posts. (this post can be see here: http://pharo.org/news/pharo-4.0-released <http://pharo.org/news/pharo-4.0-released>) Dear World, Pharo 4.0 (http://www.pharo.org) is here. Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. Many things have changed in Pharo. Here are some highlights: - Inspector/Playground/Spotter are new moldable development tools for inspecting, coding and searching objects. - Slots model instance variables as first class entities and enable meta-programming on this level. - ShoreLine reporter introduces a way to report system errors and collect statistics, that we will use for future improvements - Dark theme. These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just as important. We have closed 1697 issues in Pharo 4. Take a moment to go through a more detailed recount of the progress: https://github.com/pharo-project/ChangeLogs/blob/master/Pharo40ChangeLogs.md Pharo is improving on many fronts, but one of the most prominent changes is the addition of moldable tools for inspection and search. These tools provide extension mechanisms that allow every object to define ways in which it can be understood effectively. To provide an idea of the impact of the already existing extensions, the map below shows the Pharo classes grouped in packages, highlighting in red those parts of the system that have at least one such custom view coming with the main distribution. The spread of these extensions shows that moldability is powerful mechanism that can be used in many contexts. Remember that Pharo is your platform. We thank all the contributors of this release: Clara Allende, Jean-Baptiste Arnaud, Jean-Christophe Bach, Philippe Back, Clement Bera, Alexandre Bergel, Torsten Bergmann, Vincent Blondeau, Noury Bouraqadi, Santiago Bragagnolo, Johan Brichau, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Damien Cassou, Nicolas Cellier, Guido Chari, Dimitris Chloupis, Andrei Chis, Ben Coman, Bernardo Contreras, Tommaso Dal Sasso, Jan Van De Sandt, Christophe Demarey, Sean DeNigris, Marcus Denker, Martin Dias, Stephane Ducasse, Stephan Eggermont, Luc Fabresse, Johan Fabry, Hilaire Fernandes, Jerome Garcia, Tudor Girba, Thierry Goubier, Jigyasa Grover, Kris Gybels, Norbert Hartl, Dale Henrichs, Pablo Herrero, Nicolai Hess, Pavel Krivanek, Juraj Kubelka, Jan Kurs, Laurent Laffont, Jannik Laval, Kevin Lanvin, Max Leske, David Lewis, Diego Lont, Esteban Lorenzano, Tim Mackinnon, Attila Magyar, Esteban Maringolo, Stefan Marr, Max Mattone, Martin Mc Clure, Eliot Miranda, Alain Plantec, Guillermo Polito, Damien Pollet, Stefan Reichhart, Mark Rizun, Udo Schneider, Ignacio Sniechowski, Henrik Sperre Johansen, Igor Stasenko, Aliaksei Syrel, Ciprian Teodorov, Camille Teruel, Sebastian Tleye, Yuriy Tymchuk, Peter Uhnak, Andres Valloud, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Thomas Vincent, Jan Vrany, Martin Walk, Richard Wettel, Dmitri Zagidulin And all those who contributed indirectly, by reporting bugs, participating in discussion threads, providing feedback... Pharo 4.0 is another big step. And, the best is yet to come. Enjoy! The Pharo Team

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