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"Stephen Taylor" <editor at vector.org.uk>
04/07/2006 15:50
Please respond to editor
 
        To:     "Romilly Cocking" <romilly at cocking.co.uk>, "Francisco. J. 
Garau" <francisco.j.garau at jpmorgan.com>, "Tony Garnock-Jones" 
<tonyg at 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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