Dynamic Languages Wizards Series 3/20, 4/24, 5/10, 1-2:30pm

Subject: Dynamic Languages Wizards Series 3/20, 4/24, 5/10, 1-2:30pm
From: Gregory T. Sullivan (gregs@ai.mit.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 16:52:14 EST

Mitch,
If you think it's sufficiently relevent, please forward this
announcement to pl-seminar. Thanks. -- Greg 

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Greg      gregs@ai.mit.edu (617)253-5807
Sullivan  http://www.ai.mit.edu/~gregs/
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Announcing the Dynamic Languages Wizards Series, a series of three
panels of legendary designers and implementers of dynamic programming
languages.

Each panelist has played a major role in the design and implementation
of at least one dynamic language, and each panelist will address the
following five points:

   1. Guiding philosophy
   2. Open problems, future directions
   3. Little known secrets
   4. Good ideas that have been dropped but whose time has now come
   5. Pitfalls / gotchas

Part of each session will be dedicated to questions from the
audience. This will be an incredible opportunity to quiz these
luminaries about their design aesthetics and implementation tricks.

* Tuesday, March 20: Runtime
    Richard Kelsey (Trenza) (Scheme48, T, Orbit)
    David Moon (ODI) (Lisp designer and implementer)
    Tucker Withington (Curl)(garbage collection, Dylan, Curl)
    Scott McKay (HotDispatch) (library frameworks, CLIM, Dylan)

* Tuesday, April 24: Compile time
    Dave Detlefs (Sun)(Java, garbage collection)
    Will Clinger (Sun, Northeastern) (Scheme, RnRs)
    Mat Hostetter (Curl)

* Thursday, May 10: Language Design
    Guy Steele (Sun)(Scheme, Lisp, Java)
    Paul Graham (Lisp)
 
All panels will run 1-2:30pm in the eigth floor playroom of the AI lab
(NE43).  Refreshments will be served starting at 12:45pm.

This series is presented as part of the graduate course 6.894,
"Object-Oriented Dynamic Languages", taught by Jonathan Bachrach, Greg
Sullivan, and Kostas Arkoudas.  These three panels are open to the
public.  For more information, send mail to gregs@ai.mit.edu or
jrb@ai.mit.edu or koud@ai.mit.edu.  Also, check out the Dynamic
Languages web site at http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dynlangs/ 

Directions: http://www.ai.mit.edu/visiting/directions.shtml

Hope to see you there!

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