Dynamic Languages Symposium 2008  ECOOP 2008

Co-located with ECOOP 2008

In cooperation with AITO

In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN

Paphos, Cyprus, July 8, 2008

http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-08/

Program

8:50 - 9:00 Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk 1
The Clojure Programming Language
Rich Hickey (Independent Software Designer)
(presentation, 0.25 MB)
10:00 - 11:30 Research Papers 1
A Parsing Machine for PEGs
Sergio Queiroz Medeiros and Roberto Ierusalimschy

Contextual Values
Eric Tanter

Filtered Dispatch
Pascal Costanza, Charlotte Herzeel, and Jorge Vallejos
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 13:00 Invited Talk 2
Language Design: Back to the Future?
Laurence Tratt (Bournemouth University)
(presentation, 0.5 MB)
13:00 - 13:30 Research Papers 2
Efficient Floating-point Number Handling for Dynamically Typed Scripting Languages
Shiro Kawai
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 - 16:00 Research Papers 3
Gradual Typing with Unification-based Inference
Jeremy Siek and Manish Vachharajani

Dynamic AspectJ
Ali Assaf and Jacques Noyé
16:00 - 17:00 Invited Talk 3
The Lively Kernel - Just for Fun, Let's Take JavaScript Seriously
Dan Ingalls (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)