CfC: Workshop on Revival of Dynamic Languages @ OOPSLA'04

[Roel Wuyts]

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

International Workshop on Revival of Dynamic Languages
http://pico.vub.ac.be/~wdmeuter/RDL04/index.html
(at OOPSLA2004, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 24-28, 200)

Organization committee:
Roel Wuyts (primary contact - (e-mail address removed)), Gilad Bracha,
Wolfgang De Meuter, Stéphane Ducasse and Oscar Nierstrasz.

Important Dates
---------------------
Deadline for submissions: August 16, 2004.
Notification of Acceptance: September 10, 2004.


Theme and Goals
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In industry, static languages (such as Java, C++ and C\#) are much more
widely used than their dynamic counterparts (like CLOS, Python, Self or
Smalltalk). So it appears as though dynamic language concepts were
forgotten and have lost the race. But this is not the case.

Java and C\#, the latest mainstream static languages, popularized to a
certain extent dynamic language features such as garbage collection,
portability and (limited forms of) reflection. In the near future, we
expect this dynamicity to increase even further. E.g., it is getting
clearer year after year that pervasive computing is becoming the rule and
that concepts such as meta programming, reflection, mobility, dynamic
reconfigurability and distribution are becoming increasingly popular.
All of these features are the domain of dynamic languages, and hence it is
only logical that more dynamic language concepts have to be taken up by
static languages, or that dynamic languages can make a breakthrough.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in
(object-oriented) language design interested in dynamic language features
and languages that do not fit into the static mainstream.


Call for contributions
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Areas of interests include, but are not limited to
? closures
? delegation
? actors, active objects
? prototype-based languages and approaches
? mixins and traits
? reflection and meta-programming
? language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages
? ...

In Brief: we welcome position statements, both about new language(s)
(features) as well as about existing ones that already cover solutions for
problems that are currently getting relevant in mainstream languages. We
encourage brand new ideas, even though they have not been tried and proven
yet. It is a workshop, not a conference, so work in progress is accepted.

We expect...
? a statement to bring dynamism to an existing OOPL, or
? a proposal for completely new features/languages, or
? experience reports on dynamic features, to learn what works/does not
work in current-day development, or
? killer applications making use of dynamic features, or
? descriptions of interactions between different dynamic features and/or
OO concepts, or
? anything else related to dynamicity in (OO) PLs

Prospective attendees are requested to submit a position statement or an
essay (max 5 pages) on a topic relevant to the workshop to Roel Wuyts
([email protected]) no later than August, 16. Submissions should be 5
pages in length and are demanded to be in .pdf format. Notification of
acceptance will be on September, 10. Submissions should contain page
numbers and up to 5 keywords.


Important Dates
----------------------
Deadline for submissions: August 16, 2004.
Notification of Acceptance: September 10, 2004.

--
Roel Wuyts
DeComp
(e-mail address removed) Université Libre de
Bruxelles
http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~rowuyts/ Belgique

 

[gabriele renzi]

il Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:58:06 +0200, Roel Wuyts <[email protected]>
ha scritto::

this message may not be so much in line with the previous but..

- what does it mean "language symbiosis" ?
the only symbiosis I can thinkg od is the one beetween the C
preprocessor and C itself

- someone ever thought about an actor base concurrency mechanism for
ruby? It seem much more OO and simple than the current one (ate least
it sems to me..)

 

[Roel Wuyts]

il Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:58:06 +0200, Roel Wuyts <[email protected]>
ha scritto::

this message may not be so much in line with the previous but..

- what does it mean "language symbiosis" ? the only symbiosis I can

thinkg od is the one beetween the C

preprocessor and C itself

Integration between different languages. you could, for example, integrate
a logic language with Ruby, allowing objects to be passed to the logic
language and logic terms to Ruby. So it was meant in that sense. I don't
know if such a thing exists in Ruby. If so, you are kindly invited to
participate to the workshop!

- someone ever thought about an actor base concurrency mechanism for
ruby? It seem much more OO and simple than the current one (ate least
it sems to me..)

It would be, yes. Just take care that it remains usable Again, any
ideas are more than welcome for the workshop

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

thinkg od is the one beetween the C



Integration between different languages. you could, for example,
integrate a logic language with Ruby, allowing objects to be passed to
the logic language and logic terms to Ruby. So it was meant in that
sense. I don't know if such a thing exists in Ruby. If so, you are
kindly invited to participate to the workshop!

Hm. So a hybrid system simulation language embedded in ruby might be of
interest? The simulation part is static, compared to ruby. It's based on
dynamic generation of ruby C extensions for efficiency. The static and
dynamic aspects are in balance to achieve good performance without
sacrificing programmer-friendliness. If you think this is of interest,
let me know (off-list if you prefer) and maybe I'll submit a statement.