ACM Symposium on Dynamic Languages

October 18, 2005, San Diego, California

(co-located with OOPSLA'05)

URL: http://decomp.ulb.ac.be:8082/events/dls05/

Currently, the dynamic language community is fragmented, split over a multitude of paradigms (from functional over logic to object-oriented), languages and syntaxes. This fragmentation severely hinders research as well as acceptance, and results in either language wars or, even worse, language ignorance. The goal of this symposium is to provide a highly visible, international forum for researchers working on dynamic features and languages. We explicitly invite submissions from all kinds of paradigms (object-oriented, functional, logic, ...), as can be seen from the structure of the program committee.

DLS'05 invites the submission of technical papers presenting research results or experience in all areas related to dynamic languages or dynamic language concepts. Research papers should describe work that advances the current state of the art. Experience reports should be of broad interest and should describe insights gained from the practical application of dynamic languages that are of use to other researchers and practitioners. The program committee will evaluate each contributed research and experience paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, originality, and correctness.

Areas of interests include, but are not limited to:

-closures

-delegation

-actors, active objects

-constraint systems

-mixins and traits

-reflection and meta-programming

-aspect-oriented programming in dynamic environments

-language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages

-experience reports on successful application of dynamic languages

Papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

More information (submission guidelines, dates, program committee) can be found on http://decomp.ulb.ac.be:8082/events/dls05/