Welcome to DYLA 2010

The DYLA Workshop series focuses on the revival of dynamic languages. These days, dynamic languages (like Lisp, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Lua, etc...) are getting ever more popular. This is a call to arms for academia! We need to explore the future of dynamic languages through its human aspects and technical issues. We also ought to look back and pick up solutions from existing dynamic languages (such as Scheme, Smalltalk, or Self) to be rediscovered and spread around.

Dyla is now over. A twitter report may be found on http://twitter.com/dyla2010. Slides used for the organization are available.

Some pictures of the event are available on facebook.

See you next year!

Goal and Topics

The goal of this workshop is to act as a forum where we can discuss new advances in the design, implementation and application of dynamically typed languages that, sometimes radically, diverge from the statically typed class-based mainstream with limited reflective capabilities. Another objective of the workshop is to discuss new as well as older "forgotten" languages and features in this context.

Topics of interest include, but are certainly not limited to:

Human aspects of dynamic languages, for example...

Technical aspects of dynamic languages, for example...

And any topic relevant in applying and/or supporting dynamic languages: Smalltalk, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Scheme, Lisp, Self, ABCL, Prolog, Ioke, Clojure and many more...

Program

The program will be split over 3 different sessions and 6 presentations:

We expect the presentation length to range from 10 minutes and 30 minutes. In addition to this, we will have an extra session about discussion or coding. Pair programming is an excellent mechanism to get known each other and increase the interactivity among participants.

Recommandation for presenters

As you can see, 45 mn is allocated per presentation. This is a lot of time. It is important that you keep your presentation focused. You do not have to fill these 45 mn. 30 mn or even less is perfectly okay. We will have more time for discussion and pair programming.

The central point of your presentation is the demonstration of your tool. You may need a few slides to illustrate the general concept although. This is okay.

Please, be sure that you keep the audience entertained, interested and motivated to follow the complete presentation. You should expect the audience to ask questions and tickle you on where it hurts :-)

Submissions

The workshop will have a demo-oriented style. The idea is to allow participants to demonstrate new and interesting features and discuss what they feel is relevant for the dynamic language community. Participants need to submit a 2—4 page position paper of their work in ACM sig-alternate.cls format. At the workshop, participants will be asked to give 10-minute “lightning demos” of their contributions.

Submission page is https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=dyla10

Targeted audience

The expected audience of this workshop is to gather practitioners and researchers sharing the same interest in dynamically typed languages. Ruby, Python, Smalltalk, Scheme and Lua are gaining a significant popularity both in industry and academia. However, each community has the tendency to only look at what it produced. Broadening the scope of each community is the goal of the workshop. To achieve this goal we will form a PC with leading persons from all languages mentioned above, this should foster participation from all targeted communities.

Important dates

Organizers

Program committee

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