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    <title>ll-discuss mailing list usage</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4521</link>
    <description>Hi all,

The ll-discuss list has been almost entirely dormant for a couple of
years, but with the recent flurry of activity, I humbly request that
you please send mail to the list using the same email address that you
are subscribed with.  Otherwise, I need to rescue your message out of
the potential-spam queue before it gets delivered to the list, which
tends to delay your message from getting to the list for about 0 - 48
hours.

Thanks!

--
Trevis Rothwell
ll-discuss administrator


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    <dc:creator>Trevis Rothwell</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-06-08T21:38:52</dc:date>
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    <title>[S3] S3 recordings available online</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4512</link>
    <description>Hi --

Video recordings of all talks given at the S3 Workshop on 
Self-sustaining Systems (held May 15-16 at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute 
in Potsdam, Germany) are available online via the tele-TASK system at 
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/program/.

Best,
Robert

</description>
    <dc:creator>Robert Hirschfeld</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-05-21T11:20:37</dc:date>
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  <item rdf:about="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4510">
    <title>PLMMS - last call for papers</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4510</link>
    <description>
                           LAST CALL FOR PAPERS


                            Second Workshop on
             Programming Languages for Mechanized Mathematics
                              (PLMMS 2008)
 
          http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/cicm08/workshops/plmms/
 
                        As part of CICM / Calculemus 2008
                     Birmingham, UK, 28-29 July 2008


This workshop is focused on the intersection of programming languages
(PL) and mechanized mathematics systems (MMS). The latter category
subsumes present-day computer algebra systems (CAS), interactive proof
assistants (PA), and automated theorem provers (ATP), all heading
towards fully integrated mechanized mathematical assistants that are
expected to emerge eventually (cf. the objective of Calculemus).

The two subjects of PL and MMS meet in the following topics, which are
of particular interest to this workshop:

  * Dedicated input languages for MMS: covers all aspects of languages
    intended for the user to deploy or extend the system, both
    algorithmic and declarative ones. Typical examples are tactic
    definition languages such as Ltac in Coq, mathematical proof
    languages as in Mizar or Isar, or specialized programming
    languages built into CA systems. Of particular interest are the
    semantics of those languages, especially when current ones are
    untyped.

  * Mathematical modeling languages used for programming: covers the
    relation of logical descriptions vs. algorithmic content. For
    instance the logic of ACL2 extends a version of Lisp, that of Coq
    is close to Haskell, and some portions of HOL are similar to ML
    and Haskell, while Maple tries to do both simultaneously. Such
    mathematical languages offer rich specification capabilities,
    which are rarely available in regular programming languages. How
    can programming benefit from mathematical concepts, without
    limiting mathematics to the computational worldview?

  * Programming languages with mathematical specifications: covers
    advanced "mathematical" concepts in programming languages that
    improve the expressive power of functional specifications, type
    systems, module systems etc. Programming languages with dependent
    types are of particular interest here, as is intentionality vs
    extensionality.

  * Language elements for program verification: covers specific means
    built into a language to facilitate correctness proofs using MMS.
    For example, logical annotations within programs may be turned
    into verification conditions to be solved in a proof assistant
    eventually. How need MMS and PL to be improved to make this work
    conveniently and in a mathematically appealing way?

These issues have a very colorful history. Many PL innovations first
appeared in either CA or proof systems first, before migrating into
more mainstream programming languages. Some examples include type
inference, dependent types, generics, term-rewriting, first-class
types, first-class expressions, first-class modules, code extraction
etc. However, such innovations were never aggressively pursued by
builders of MMS, but often reconstructed by programming language
researchers. This workshop is an opportunity to present the latest
innovations in MMS design that may be relevant to future programming
languages, or conversely novel PL principles that improve upon
implementation and deployment of MMS.

We also want to critically examine what has worked, and what has not.
Why are all the languages of mainstream CA systems untyped? Why are the
(strongly typed) proof assistants so much harder to use than a typical
CAS? What forms of polymorphism exist in mathematics? What forms of
dependent types may be used in mathematical modeling? How can MMS
regain the upper hand on issues of "genericity" and "modularity"? What
are the biggest barriers to using a more mainstream language as a host
language for a CAS or PA/ATP?


Invited Talk
------------

Conor McBride (Alta Systems, Northern Ireland) will give an invited
talk "Theorem Proving for the Lazy Programmer"


Submission
----------

Submission works through EasyChair
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plmms2008

Two kinds of papers will be considered:

 * Full research papers may be up to 12 pages long. Authors of
   accepted papers are expected to present their work on the workshop
   in a regular talk.

 * Position papers may be up to 4 pages long. The workshop
   presentation of accepted position papers consists of two parts: a
   stimulating statement of certain issues or challenges by the
   author, followed by a discussion in the plenum.

Papers should use the usual ENTCS style http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html
(11 point version), and will be reviewed by the program
committee. Informal workshop proceedings will be circulated as a
technical report.

Moreover there will be post-workshop proceedings of improved research
papers, or position papers that have been completed into full papers,
to appear in a special issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning.
There will be a separate submission and review phase for this, where
papers from both PLMMS 2007 and 2008 will be considered.


Programme Committee
-------------------

   Jacques Carette (Co-Chair) (McMaster University, Canada)
   John Harrison              (Intel Corporation, USA)
   Hugo Herbelin              (INRIA, Ecole polytechnique, France)
   James McKinna              (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
   Ulf Norell                 (Chalmers University, Sweden)
   Bill Page
   Christophe Raffalli        (Universite de Savoie, France)
   Josef Urban                (Charles University, Czech Republic)
   Stephen Watt               (ORCCA, University of Western Ontario, Canada)
   Makarius Wenzel (Co-Chair) (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany)
   Freek Wiedijk              (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)


Important Dates
---------------

  * Submission deadline - 5 May 2008
  * Notification of acceptance - 6 June 2008
  * Final version - 7 July 2008 (approximately)
  * Workshop - 28-29 July 2008



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    <dc:creator>Jacques Carette</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-04-23T19:53:25</dc:date>
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    <title>Gilad Bracha's talk on "The Newspeak ProgrammingLanguage"</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4509</link>
    <description>A recording of Gilad Bracha's talk on "The Newspeak Programming 
Language" (Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, March 11, 2008) is now 
online at http://www.tele-task.de/page50_lecture3490.html

Best,
Robert

</description>
    <dc:creator>Robert Hirschfeld</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-04-19T19:06:37</dc:date>
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    <title>Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008 | Callfor Participation</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4508</link>
    <description>----------------------------------------------------------------------

Call for Participation

*** Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008 ***

May 15-16, 2008
Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Potsdam, Germany

http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/

----------------------------------------------------------------------

[ Important dates ]

   * Early registration: April 20, 2008
   * S3 workshop: May 15-16, 2008

[ Program ]

   * 3 invited talks
   * 6 technical papers
   * http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/program/

[ Invited speakers ]

   * Ian Piumarta (Viewpoints)
   * Dan Ingalls (Sun Labs)
   * Richard P. Gabriel (IBM Research)

[ Registration ]

   * http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/registration/

We hope to see you in Potsdam,
Kim Rose and Robert Hirschfeld

----------------------------------------------------------------------

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    <dc:creator>Robert Hirschfeld</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-04-12T13:22:04</dc:date>
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    <title>ELS'08 news: programme published, registration,and more...</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4507</link>
    <description>************************************************************************
*                                                                      *
*                1st European Lisp Symposium (ELS 2008)                *
*                                                                      *
*                http://prog.vub.ac.be/~pcostanza/els08                *
*                                                                      *
*                  Bordeaux, France, May 22-23, 2008                   *
*                     LaBRI, Université Bordeaux 1                     *
*                                                                      *
************************************************************************

News:

We have published the list of accepted papers that will be presented at
the 1st European Lisp Symposium (ELS 2008) in Bordeaux/France on May 23.
We have papers about temporal reasoning, context-oriented programming,
visual programming, object-relational mappings, clim presentation types,
custom specializers for object-oriented lisp, binary methods programming
in CLOS.

See http://prog.vub.ac.be/~pcostanza/els08/page9/page9.html for the
programme of the symposium.

We have also provided information about Bordeaux and about the social
events programme accompanying the symposium. There will be a cocktail
party, a dinner, and an optional excursion to the atlantic coast.

See http://prog.vub.ac.be/~pcostanza/els08/page7/page7.html for the
information about Bordeaux, including how to reach Bordeaux by plane
and by train.

See http://prog.vub.ac.be/~pcostanza/els08/page8/page8.html for details
about the social programme.

Registration for the symposium and for the optional excursion is open!
Please take advantage of the reduced registration fees before the early
registration deadline, April 25, 2008. Registering early helps us in
planning the details of the symposium better. The early registration
fee is 50€ for students and 120€ for regular participants.

See http://prog.vub.ac.be/~pcostanza/els08/page4/page4.html for the
registration page.

You have to take care of accommodation yourself. We have provided a
list of recommended hotels. For some of them, accounts for symposium
participants are available.

See http://prog.vub.ac.be/~pcostanza/els08/page10/page10.html for
the list of recommended hotels.


Looking forward to seeing you in Bordeaux,
Pascal Costanza


</description>
    <dc:creator>Pascal Costanza</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-04-09T10:26:03</dc:date>
  </item>
  <item rdf:about="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4505">
    <title>COP in Journal of Object Technology</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4505</link>
    <description>Hi everybody,

There is a new article about Context-oriented Programming in the
Journal of Object Technology, and it can be viewed and downloaded athttp://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2008_03/article4/

It discusses context-oriented extensions for Smalltalk, Common Lisp
and Java, namely ContextS, ContextL and ContextJ, with new examples
for all the presented languages.

Here are links for more information and/or downloads for the discussed
language extensions:
- ContextS: http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/cop/
- ContextL: http://common-lisp.net/project/closer/contextl.html
- ContextJ: http://prog.vub.ac.be/~pcostanza/contextj.html

Please feel free to send feedback and suggestions.


Best,
Pascal

</description>
    <dc:creator>Pascal Costanza</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-03-13T11:35:02</dc:date>
  </item>
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    <title>Boston Lisp Meeting</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4503</link>
    <description>I'd like to organize a monthly Boston Lisp Meeting.
  http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html

Those amongst you who are in the Boston area, or may come by, are
invited to participate or give a talk.

I am also particularly looking for co-organizers, and potential
speakers. If there are people you'd like to hear, please help me
contact them.

[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&amp;Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
Whatever says the law, it is only ever forbidden but to get caught.


</description>
    <dc:creator>Faré</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-02-22T22:46:38</dc:date>
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    <title>Deadline extension: Workshop on Self-sustainingSystems (S3) 2008</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4502</link>
    <description>Please note that the deadline for paper submissions to the Workshop on 
Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008 has been extended. The new submission 
deadline in now

     *** February 24, 2008 ***

For more information on S3, please visit 
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/

Regards,
Kim Rose and Robert Hirschfeld


-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=


[Call for Papers]


*** Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008 ***

May 15-16, 2008
Potsdam, Germany
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/

</description>
    <dc:creator>Robert Hirschfeld</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-02-15T00:15:27</dc:date>
  </item>
  <item rdf:about="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4501">
    <title>ELS'08 deadline extension</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4501</link>
    <description>Hi,

Please note that we have extended the submission deadline for original  
papers for the European Lisp Symposium 2008. The submission deadline  
is now February 25, 2008.

Find more information about the European Lisp Symposium at http://prog.vub.ac.be/~pcostanza/els08/


Best,
Pascal

</description>
    <dc:creator>Pascal Costanza</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-02-10T14:09:29</dc:date>
  </item>
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    <title>Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) 2008 -- Call forPapers</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4500</link>
    <description>CALL FOR PAPERS

*** Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) 2008 ***

July 8, 2008 (Tuesday)

Co-located with ECOOP 2008, Paphos, Cyprus

Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN

http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls/dls08/

-------------------------------
     IMPORTANT DATES
-------------------------------
Submission deadline: April 25, 2008 (hard deadline)
Author notification: May 23, 2008
Camera-ready copy due: June 6, 2008
DLS 2008: July 8, 2008

-------------------------------
     ABOUT DLS
-------------------------------
The Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at ECOOP 2008 in Paphos, Cyprus, 
is a forum for discussion of dynamic languages, their implementation and 
application. While mature dynamic languages including Smalltalk, Lisp, 
Scheme, Self, Prolog, and APL continue to grow and inspire new converts, 
a new generation of dynamic scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, 
PHP, Tcl, and JavaScript are successful in a wide range of applications. 
DLS provides a place for researchers and practitioners to come together 
and share their knowledge, experience, and ideas for future research and 
development.

DLS 2008 invites high quality papers reporting original research, 
innovative contributions or experience related to dynamic languages, 
their implementation and application. Accepted Papers will be published 
in the ACM Digital Library.

-------------------------------
     TOPICS OF INTEREST
-------------------------------
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 runtime 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
- Object-oriented, aspect-oriented, and context-oriented programming

-------------------------------
     SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
-------------------------------
We invite original contributions that neither have been published 
previously nor are under review by other refereed events or 
publications. 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, and originality.

Papers are to be submitted electronically at 
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls/dls08/ in PDF format. Submissions 
must not exceed 12 pages and need to use the ACM format, templates for 
which can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

-------------------------------
     PROCEEDINGS
-------------------------------
Accepted Papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

-------------------------------
     PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-------------------------------

Chair: Johan Brichau (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

Joe Armstrong (Ericsson AB, Sweden)
Pierre Cointe (École des Mines de Nantes, France)
William R. Cook (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Pascal Costanza (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Maja D'Hondt (IMEC, Belgium)
Robert Hirschfeld (Hasso-Plattner Institüt, Germany)
Roberto Ierusalimschy (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Andy Kellens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Michele Lanza (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Michael Leuschel (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Berne, Switzerland)
Kent Pitman (PTC, USA)
Lynne Shaw (CheckFree Investment Services, USA)
David Ungar (Sun Microsystems, USA)
Peter Van Roy (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Martin von Löwis (Hasso-Plattner Institüt, Germany)
Daniel Weinreb (ITA Software, USA)


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    <dc:creator>Robert Hirschfeld</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-01-25T07:50:50</dc:date>
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    <title>Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008 -- Call for Papers (Reminder)</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4499</link>
    <description>[Call for Papers]


*** Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008 ***

May 15-16, 2008
Potsdam, Germany
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/

</description>
    <dc:creator>Robert Hirschfeld</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-01-21T20:11:18</dc:date>
  </item>
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    <title>Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008 -- Callfor Papers</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4498</link>
    <description>[Call for Papers]


*** Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008 ***

May 15-16, 2008
Potsdam, Germany
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/

</description>
    <dc:creator>Robert Hirschfeld</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2007-12-13T12:39:36</dc:date>
  </item>
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    <title>[CfP] European Lisp Symposium 2008</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4497</link>
    <description>******************************************************************************
*                                                                            *
*                   1st European Lisp Symposium (ELS  
2008)                   *
*                                                                            *
*                   http://prog.vub.ac.be/~pcostanza/ 
els08                   *
*                                                                            *
*                     Bordeaux, France, May 22-23,  
2008                      *
*                        LaBRI, Université Bordeaux  
1                        *
*                                                                            *
******************************************************************************

Important Dates:
****************

* Submission of research papers: February 11, 2008
* Work-in-progress papers:          March 24, 2008
* Author notification:               April 7, 2008
* First final versions due:         April 28, 2008

Accepted research papers will be invited for a special issue of the  
Journal
of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). See symposium website for more  
details.


Scope:
******

The European Lisp Symposium 2008 invites high quality papers about novel
research results, insights and lessons learned from practical  
applications,
and educational perspectives, all involving Lisp dialects, including  
Common
Lisp, Scheme, ISLISP, Dylan, and so on.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Language design and implementation techniques
* Language integration, interoperation and deployment
* Experience reports and case studies
* Reflection and meta-level architectures
* Educational approaches
* Software adaptation and evolution
* Configuration management
* Artificial intelligence
* Large and ultra-large-scale systems
* Development methodologies
* Development support and environments
* Persistent systems
* Scientific computing
* Parallel and distributed computing
* Data mining
* Semantic web
* Dynamic optimization
* Innovative applications
* Hardware and virtual machine support
* Domain-oriented programming

We also encourage submissions about past approaches that have been  
largely
forgotten about, as long as they are presented in a new setting.

We invite submissions in two categories:
original contributions and work-in-progress papers.

*** Original contributions have neither been published previously nor  
are
under review by other refereed events or publications. Research papers  
should
describe work that advances the current state of the art, or presents  
old
results from a new perspective. 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, and originality.

Accepted papers will be published in the Journal of Universal Computer  
Science
(J.UCS). Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work  
at the
symposium main track in Bordeaux on May 23, 2008.

*** Work in progress describes ongoing work that is not ready for  
publication
yet, but would benefit strongly from feedback by other researchers,
practitioners and educators. Such contributions will not be published  
in the
symposium proceedings, but will be made available at the symposium  
website.
The work-in-progress track will be organized as a series of writers'  
workshops
where authors work together to improve their papers. Some authors who  
submit
papers for the main track will be suggested to contribute their work  
in this
track instead, if the program committee decides that their submission  
is not
yet ready for a publication.

The writers' workshops will take place at the symposium in Bordeaux on
May 22, 2008.


Submissions:
************

Papers for the main track must be submitted electronically, preferably  
as PDF
or PostScript file (level 1 or 2). However, submissions in RTF or Word  
format
are also accepted. Initial submissions may not exceed 15 pages in the  
J.UCS
style, including all appendices. (Invited papers for the journal  
publication
will have a page limitation of 25 pages in the same format.) See the  
symposium
website for more details, including about the submission procedure.

Papers for the work-in-progress track may be in PDF, PostScript level  
1 or 2,
RTF or Word, and may not exceed 25 pages. There are no further  
requirements on
their format. Papers for the work-in-progress track must be sent via  
email to
pascal.costanza&lt; at &gt;vub.ac.be.


Program Chair:
**************

* Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Program Committee:
******************

* Marco Antoniotti, Universita Milano Bicocca, Italy
* Marie Beurton-Aimar, Université Bordeaux 1, France
* Jerry Boetje, College of Charlston, USA
* Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Irène Durand, Université Bordeaux 1, France
* Marc Feeley, Université de Montréal, Canada
* Erick Gallesio, Universite de Nice / Sophia Antipolis, France
* Rainer Joswig, Independent Consultant, Germany
* António Leitão, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
* Henry Lieberman, MIT, USA
* Scott McKay, ITA Software, Inc., USA
* Ralf Möller, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
* Nicolas Neuss, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
* Kent Pitman, PTC, USA
* Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London, United  
Kingdom
* Jeffrey Mark Siskind, Purdue University, USA
* Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France

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    <dc:creator>Pascal Costanza</dc:creator>
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    <title>Who 'invented' CPS?</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4491</link>
    <description>Hi,

This is a question for historians. ;)

Who 'invented' or discovered continuation-passing style? Was this part  
of the lambda papers or did this come up earlier? Was the style used  
before it got that name?

Thanks a lot in advance for any hints...

Pascal

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    <dc:creator>Pascal Costanza</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2007-11-29T20:20:31</dc:date>
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    <title>uCalc Language Builder interactive tutorial available</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4490</link>
    <description>An interactive tutorial for uCalc Language Builder is now available. It  will 
walk you through various concepts and allow you to experiment as you go  
along. In addition to that, this beta now comes with a full help file for uCalc  
LB and one for the Interactive Interpreter.
 
If you have downloaded previous betas of uCalc LB, and couldn't figure it  
out, then you should download this one. With the included help files and  
interactive tutorial, it should now be significantly easier to understand how to  
make use of uCalc LB.
 
The fully functional download includes the following:
* uCalc Language  Builder component
* Interactive interpreter (which can also run script  files)
* Interactive instructional tutorial
* Interpreted versions of  Lisp, Forth, BASIC, and more
* Line-by-line explanation files to accompany  source code files
* Help files for uCalc LB and uCalc Interpreter
 
The file to download is _http://www.ucalc.com/beta/lbnov07b.zip_ 
(http://www.ucalc.com/beta/lbnov07b.zip)   .
 
I look forward to hearing from others in this Lightweight Languages  forum.
 
So what exactly is uCalc Language Builder?
 
uCalc LB is designed to let you easily create your own interpreted /  
scripting languages. It comes with sample languages such as Lisp, Forth,  BASIC and 
more. These are defined in plain text files, which you can load  right up into 
the generic uCalc interpreter, at which point it becomes an  interpreter for 
the language you have just loaded. The interpreter can run code  either from 
script files or interactively.
 
In addition to constructing programming languages, you can use the  
interpreter for powerful text processing, or as a command line calculator /  expression 
evaluator.
 
The current version runs under Windows.
 
Daniel  Corbier
uCalc Language  Builder
www.ucalc.com



************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
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    <dc:creator>UCalcLang&lt; at &gt;aol.com</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2007-11-08T22:53:28</dc:date>
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    <title>[Scheme Steering Committee announcements] R6RS Released</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4489</link>
    <description>On behalf of the Steering Committee and the Editors Committee, I am
extremely pleased to announce that the R6RS is now available in pdf
format at http://www.r6rs.org .

An HTML version will be available shortly.

The editors have asked me to include the following statement.

 The editors would like to make the following suggestion to the steering
 committee and, by extension, the Scheme community.

 Among the differences between the R6RS and its predecessors, the sheer
 size of the report is the most obvious.  This difference can be explained
 by the primary goal that drove the R6RS effort, which was to enable a new
 level of portability among Scheme implementations.  Given that goal, many
 language constructs that implementations supply out of practical
 necessity---including modules, records, expressive macro systems, byte
 vectors, hash tables, and exceptions---fell under the purview of the new
 report, instead of individual implementations.  The result is a
 significantly larger report.

 The expanded scope and size of the report make its compromises and flaws
 more keenly felt than before; quite simply, there are more details to get
 wrong.  Compromises and flaws are inherent in a standardization process,
 just as they are inherent in the production of software artifacts (at
 least given our current technology).  As with software, the clearest way
 forward is a process of continual refinement.

 We therefore suggest that the standardization process be refined to
 accommodate a series of incremental reports (R6.1RS, R6.2RS, etc.) to
 address problems in R6RS as flaws and their solutions become clear.

On behalf of the Steering Committee, I would like to thank all the
editors for their efforts over the last four years.  The scale and
length of this process is unprecedented in our community.  I would
also to like to thank the many people who contributed to the discussion
and participated in the R6RS process.

I will be giving a report on the process at the Scheme Workshop on
Sunday.  I look forward to seeing many of you there.

Sincerely,
--Mitch Wand

for the Steering Committee:
Alan Bawden
Guy Steele
Mitch Wand
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    <dc:creator>Mitchell Wand</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2007-09-28T17:49:13</dc:date>
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    <title>ContextL Survey September 2007</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4488</link>
    <description>Context-dependent behavior is becoming increasingly important for a  
wide range of application domains. Unfortunately, mainstream  
programming languages do not provide mechanisms that enable software  
entities to adapt their behavior dynamically to the current execution  
context. In collaboration with various researchers, we have developed  
a new programming technique called "Context-oriented Programming" (COP).

ContextL - http://common-lisp.net/project/closer/contextl.html - is  
our first fully implemented and currently most mature programming  
language extension for COP and is built on top of the Common Lisp  
Object System (CLOS). ContextL has first been made available to the  
public in early 2005, and has already been adopted by a number of  
programmers. We would now like to assess how well ContextL has been  
received so far.

Please consider participating in our first survey about ContextL -  
this will help us a lot to develop ContextL and related projects  
further (like Closer to MOP, etc.).

You can find the survey and more information about it at http:// 
prog.vub.ac.be/~pcostanza/COP/survey.html


Thanks a lot,
Pascal

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    <dc:creator>Pascal Costanza</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2007-09-03T12:27:05</dc:date>
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    <title>[Scheme Steering Committee announcements] R6RS Ratified</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4487</link>
    <description>According to the Scheme Charter, at the end of the review process, the
Steering Committee could choose either to finalize the submitted draft
or to restart the review process. In order to be sure that the new
revised Scheme standard enjoyed wide support among the Scheme
community, the Steering Committee adopted a procedure in which there
would be a vote on the question of whether the draft should be
ratified, and they agreed to be bound by the results of that vote.

112 people registered to vote on the question. 102 of those electors
cast their ballots before the poll closed on 12 August 2007. 67
electors voted to ratify draft 5.97 as R6RS. 35 electors were opposed
to ratification. Thus 65.7% of those who voted, voted in favor of
ratification. This is more than the 60% required for ratification.

The Steering Committee therefore ratifies the draft numbered 5.97 as
the official "Revised6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme". The
Editors are directed to prepare the final text of the document,
correcting only minor errata.

The final record of the ratification vote can be found at
http://www.r6rs.org/ratification/results.html. (Additional
correspondence received after the poll closed will be published
separately.)


---The Scheme Language Steering Committee:
    Alan Bawden
    Guy Steele
    Mitch Wand
</description>
    <dc:creator>Mitchell Wand</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2007-08-29T14:54:15</dc:date>
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    <title>DLS 2007 at OOPSLA -- Call for Participation</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4486</link>
    <description>=======================================================================

                 *** Call for Participation ***

                        D L S    2 0 0 7

                  Dynamic Languages Symposium

                        October 22, 2007
                 Palais des congres de Montreal
                        Montreal, Canada

                  co-located with OOPSLA 2007
                   sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN

             http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls07/

=======================================================================

The Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) is a forum for discussion of
dynamic languages, their implementation and application. While mature
dynamic languages including Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, Self, and Prolog
continue to grow and inspire new converts, a new generation of dynamic
scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript are
successful in a wide range of applications. DLS provides a place for
researchers and practitioners to come together and share their
knowledge, experience, and ideas for future research and development.

This year 30 papers were submitted to the Dynamic Languages Symposium of
which 9 papers were accepted. The program committee reviewed each paper
and met electronically to select papers for the final program.

We are pleased host invited talks by Mark Miller and Jim Hugunin.

The program of the Dynamic Languages Symposium is available from
http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls07/

Please note that participation in DLS requires registration with OOPSLA
at http://www.regmaster.com/conf/oopsla2007.html or
http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/

Contact:
Pascal Costanza (pascal.costanza&lt; at &gt;vub.ac.be)
Robert Hirschfeld (hirschfeld&lt; at &gt;hpi.uni-potsdam.de)

=======================================================================

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    <dc:creator>Robert Hirschfeld</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2007-08-07T10:48:29</dc:date>
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    <title>[Scheme Steering Committee announcements] R6RS Errataand Electorate; Voting Schedule</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/4485</link>
    <description>_______________________________________________
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https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/scheme-announcements
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    <dc:creator>Mitchell Wand</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2007-07-25T15:23:01</dc:date>
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