Stephen,
I would prefer that the meeting is held in London.
Anybody else wants to come along?
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To: "Romilly Cocking" romilly@cocking.co.uk, "Francisco. J. Garau" francisco.j.garau@jpmorgan.com, "Tony Garnock-Jones" tonyg@lshift.net cc: Subject: Domain-specific notations
At XP2006 we identified others with a common interest in the use of domain-specific notations (DSNs). We see DSNs enabling domain experts and professional writers (programmers) to collaborate on executable system descriptions — software. Our experience indicates that direct collaboration on an executable description enables useful software to be written at a pace even more rapid than achieved by agile developers using C++ or Java.
A key to this is the use of dynamically-typed languages, which permit concise and dynamic definitions of vocabulary. We point from our own experience to APL, J, Python, Ruby and Smalltalk.
We are interested in the possibility of either a dedicated track at XP2007 for DSNs, or a conference dedicated to DSNs, or both.
In this we have attracted from XP2006 the interest and encouragement of
- Kent Beck, author of "Extreme Programming Explained", who would like to revive interest in Smalltalk - Barry Boehm, Professor, Center for Software Engineering, USCLA - Jack Järkvik, VP R&D, Ericsson AB - Pekka Abrahamsson, XP2006 chair - Jutta Eckstein, XP2004 chair
I'm looking to convene a 1-day meeting to review what a dedicated conference or track might cover, and to agree any action to take about it. This meeting might
- abut the Dyalog APL User Meeting in Elsinore (Helsingør) in October; - be held in London, to which travel is relatively cheap.
Who would represent the UK Smalltalk community?
Stephen
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