April 2013 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

Generating flow chart / state diagram from Moose
by Norbert Hartl April 3, 2013

April 3, 2013

I need to create a mix of flow charts and state diagrams from code. I would like to use something elaborate like Moose to generate because source navigation should be fairly easy. I've checked plugins for Moose but didn't find anything that will provide diagrams featuring branches, etc. Any hints? Norbert

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Call for papers for Dyla'13: 7th Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications @ECOOP
by Damien Cassou April 3, 2013

April 3, 2013

Call for Papers =========================================================== Dyla'13, 7th Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications Colocated with ECOOP, ECMFA and ECSA In-cooperation with SIGPLAN and SIGSOFT 1â5 July, Montpellier, France http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/Events/Dyla13 !! Important dates - Submission deadline: *April 19th* - Notification: mid-May - Workshop: July 1st - Ecoop early registration: mid-May !! Abstract The advent of Java and C# has been a major breakthrough in the adoption of some important object-oriented language characteristics. This breakthrough turned academic features like interfaces, garbage collection, and meta-programming into technologies generally accepted by industry. Nevertheless, the massive adoption of these languages now also gives rise to a growing awareness of their limitations. A number of reactions from industry testify this: invokedynamic bytecode instruction has been included in latest Java virtual machine release; the dynamic language runtime (DLR) is gaining popularity; C# adopted dynamic as a valid static type. Gartner prognoses further growth (http://blogs.gartner.com/mark_driver/2008/12/10) of dynamic languages. Researchers and practitioners struggle with static type systems, overly complex abstract grammars, simplistic concurrency mechanisms, limited reflection capabilities, and the absence of higher-order language constructs such as delegation, closures and continuations. Dynamic languages such as Ruby, Python, JavaScript and Lua are a step forward in addressing these problems while getting more and more popular. Making these languages mainstream requires practitioners to look back and pick mechanisms up in existing dynamic languages such as Lisp, Scheme, Smalltalk and Self. Practitioners also need to further explore discover new dynamic approaches in the context of new challenging fields such as pervasive computing. The goal of this workshop is to act as a forum where practitioners 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. Another objective is to discuss new as well as older "forgotten" languages and features in this context. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - programming language extensions - programming environment extensions - executing environments - static and dynamic analyses - optional type-checking - meta-object protocols - reserve engineering - domain-specific languages/tooling - testing environments - live programming !! Targeted audience The expected audience of this workshop is practitioners and researchers sharing the same interest in dynamically typed languages. Lua, Python, Ruby, Scheme and Smalltalk are gaining a significant popularity both in industry and academia. Nevertheless, each community has the tendency to only look at what it produces. 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, fostering participation from all targeted communities. !! Workshop Format and Submission Information 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. To participate to the workshop, you can either - submit (before __April 19th 2013__) an article (ACM Tighter Alternate style http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) describing your presentation and/or tool. Articles whose length ranges from 2 to 15 pages will be carefully reviewed by a program committee including but not limited to the organizers. Each accepted paper will be presented for 20 to 30 minutes and be published to the ACM Digital Library (at the option of each author) and the workshop's web site. The submission website is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dyla2013. - or give a 10-minute lightning demo of your work. A dedicated session will be allocated for this, provided there is ample time available. A session on pair programming is also planned. People will then get a chance to share their technologies by interacting with other participants. !! Program committee - Carl Friedrich Bolz, Heinrich-Heine-UniversitÃ¤t DÃ¼sseldorf, Germany (http://cfbolz.de) - Camillo Bruni, Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France (http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/team/bruni) - Adrian Kuhn, University of British Columbia, Canada (https://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/adrian-kuhn) - Lukas Renggli, Google, Switzerland (http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/) - Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer, University of Chile (http://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~jsandova/) - Bastian Steinert, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany (http://www.bastiansteinert.org) - Veronica Uquillas Gomez, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (http://soft.vub.ac.be/~vuquilla/) - Simon Urli, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France (http://www.simonurli.fr/) - Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France (http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier) - the 4 workshop organizers !! Workshop Organizers - Alexandre Bergel (http://bergel.eu) - Damien Cassou (http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st) - Jorge Ressia (http://www.jorgeressia.com) - Serge Stinckwich (http://www.doesnotunderstand.org) !! News feed Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/dyla2013 For further information: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/Events/Dyla13

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Smalltalk Hub password reset
by Victor Stan April 1, 2013

April 1, 2013

Hi, I'm not sure where to get the attention of anyone that works for http://smalltalkhub.com, so I'm posting here, in hope that some of the admins or developers are following this list as well. There is no contact information or place to file bugs or request help for the http://smalltalkhub.com website. There is also no place to reset a lost password. When I type in my username and password, and they are incorrect, both fields are cleared out, perhaps only the password field should be cleared out? It is quite annoying to have to input the username all over again, usually people forget their password and less so their username. If there is a better place for me to discuss Smalltalk Hub related issues let me know :) Cheers, Victor Stan Schedule me: http://quicklyschedule.quicklyschedule.me/victor Add me to your address book - it's easy! http://contactmonkey.com/victor

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a glimpse at new cool text editor made by alain P ; )
by StÃ©phane Ducasse April 1, 2013

April 1, 2013

Thanks alain for this previea and Synectique ( http://www.synectique.eu ) for the sponsoring of this effort. Stef

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April 1, 2013

Hi guys We were checking a bit the situation and this is promising :) -> Consortium: 9 Members, 1 Sponsor ==> 20500 EUR/Year -> Association: 47 Members ==> 4040 EUR/Year We really think that we can reach the first goal of enough money for 1 full time engineer within the next year Stef and Marcus

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#pharoconf #mooseday on twitter
by Tudor Girba April 1, 2013

April 1, 2013

Hi, If you want to tweet/follow what is going on at PharoConf and MooseDay, please use #pharoconf and #mooseday. Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com "Beauty is where we see it."

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