Dynamic Languages Wizards Panel, Tues. 4/24, 1-2:30pm, 8ai


Subject: Dynamic Languages Wizards Panel, Tues. 4/24, 1-2:30pm, 8ai
From: Gregory T. Sullivan (gregs@ai.mit.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 18 2001 - 15:56:37 EDT


          Tuesday, April 24, 2001, 1:00-2:30pm
    NE43 (545 Technology Square) 8th floor playroom

Announcing the second panel in the Dynamic Languages Wizards Series.
The April 24th panel will focus on compilation of dynamic 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, April 24: Compile time
    Will Clinger (Sun, Northeastern)
    Dave Detlefs (Sun)
    Mat Hostetter (Curl)
    Martin Rinard (MIT)

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

** For those of you unable to attend in person, we plan to webcast
** this event from: http://ks.ai.mit.edu/webcast/

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.

QuickTime recordings of the first panel (March 20) are available under
the Dynamic Languages Group web page:

  http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dynlangs/

We hope to make recordings of this second panel available also.
For more information, send mail to gregs@ai.mit.edu or jrb@ai.mit.edu
or koud@ai.mit.edu

Hope to see you there!

-- 
Greg      gregs@ai.mit.edu (617)253-5807
Sullivan  http://www.ai.mit.edu/~gregs/



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