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From: Steven H. Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear SIGAPL Members and Friends: APL2007 The Program Chair of APL 2007, Lynne Shaw, is working on the special issue of APL Quote Quad for the Conference Proceedings. You should receive this issue in the coming weeks. Preparations are under way for APL2008. Lynne proposed that the next meeting be held adjacent to the Dyalog APL meeting in September 2008. It is also possible that Lynne will participate in the program development of the Dynamic Languages Symposium of ECOOP 2008 in Malta. This conference would be under the auspices of SIGPLAN European OOPSLA. We will keep you informed on future developments. SGB meeting on February 11, 2008 The Chairman, Guy Larocque, will attend the next SIG Governing Board (SGB) meeting on February 11, 2008, to discuss the SIGAPL Program Review. As you may remember, there was a motion to dissolve SIGAPL last year. As it was challenged by many members, the motion was delayed until now. For this reason, the program and viability of SIGAPL must be evaluated at the next SGB meeting. It is also possible that there will be discussion for a merging with SIGPLAN. Volunteer coordinator The Executive Committee is always looking forward to increasing the benefits for the members. An important benefit is the update of the SIGAPL web site by adding more features on the web site, including a software library and the Waterloo archives. Our volunteer coordinator, Devon McCormick, is coordinating the volunteer efforts. He already contacted several among you who indicated a clear interest to contribute. Don’t hesitate to contact Devon if you would like to get involved ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Dynamic Languages Symposium APL was one of the first dynamic programming languages and it's dynamic nature contributes to its productivity. DLS 2008 is an opportunity to introduce the larger dynamic languages community to APL's unique approach to computer programming and problem solving. CALL FOR PAPERS DLS 2008 Dynamic Languages Symposium 2008 Co-located with ECOOP 2008, Paphos, Cyprus, tuesday July 8, 2008 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 (in formation) ------------------------------- Chair: Johan Brichau (UniversitŽ catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Joe Armstrong (Ericsson AB, Sweden) Pierre Cointe (ƒcole 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 InstitŸt, Germany) Roberto Ierusalimschy (PUC-Rio, Brazil) Andy Kellens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Michele Lanza (University of Lugano, Switzerland) Michael Leuschel (University of DŸsseldorf, 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 (UniversitŽ catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Martin von Lšwis (Hasso-Plattner InstitŸt, Germany) Daniel Weinreb (ITA Software, USA) Best Regards, The SIGAPL Executive Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
