[Squeak-ev] [ANN] Gilad Bracha: The Newspeak Programming Language (11.03.2008, 16:00-17:00, HPI, Potsdam)

[Robert Hirschfeld]

=== Vortragsankuendigung ===

Titel: The Newspeak Programming Language

Referent: Dr. Gilad Bracha (Cadence Design Systems)

Termin: 11. Maerz 2008, 16-17 Uhr

Ort: Hasso-Plattner-Institut (HPI) Potsdam, Raum  B-E.2

Inhalt: Newspeak is a new dynamic language, descended from Smalltalk and 
Self. Like Self, Newspeak is a message based language: all computation - 
even an object's own access to its internal structure - is performed by 
sending messages to objects. However, like Smalltalk, Newspeak is 
class-based. Classes can be nested arbitrarily, as in Beta. Since all 
names denote message sends, all classes are virtual; in particular, 
superclasses are virtual, so all classes act as mixins. There is no 
static state in Newspeak. Instead, top level classes act as module 
definitions, which are independent, immutable, self-contained parametric 
namespaces. They can be instantiated into modules which may be stateful 
and mutually recursive. Naturally, like its predecessors, Newspeak is 
reflective: a mirror library allows structured access to the program 
meta-level. In this talk, we'll expand on these topics, illustrating 
interesting uses such as class hierarchy inheritance and domain specific 
language support.

Bio: Gilad Bracha is a Distinguished Engineer at Cadence Design Systems. 
Previously, he was a Computational Theologist and Distinguished Engineer 
at Sun Microsystems. He is co-author of the Java Language Specification, 
and a researcher in the area of object-oriented programming languages. 
Prior to joining Sun, he worked on Strongtalk, the Animorphic Smalltalk 
System. He received his B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from 
Ben Gurion University in Israel and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the 
University of Utah

http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/

Anfahrt: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hpi/campus/anfahrt.html

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