[Squeak-fr] Avis de l'architect de SUN/JVM sur Smalltalk

[Reza Razavi]

Bonjour,

Je voudrais porter à votre attention le texte ci-dessous, extrait d'un 
article ACM bien intéressant (et très récent; oct. 2005). Si vous souhaitez 
avoir une copie au format PDF de l'article (~3 M°), n'hésitez pas à me 
faire signe.

Je vous souhaite un bon réveillon et une excellente année 2006,
Cordialement,
RR

Extrait sur Smalltalk (page 40/47):
Tim Lindholm is a Distinguished Engineer for the Java Software group at Sun 
Microsystems. He was an original member of the Java project at Sun and 
remains the architect of the Java virtual machine.

5. If you were to design a programming language today, how would it differ 
from current programming languages? I am leery of object-orientation as a 
kind of religion that drags in complexity in the guise of simplicity. It 
bugs me that sometimes to use an object system requires mind-twisting 
discussions on what things mean. Real programmers don't have time for 
religious arguments. Nonetheless I would like to see the world take another 
run at a Smalltalk-like language, something simpler than current popular 
languages. Java was striving for elegance and simplicity while retaining 
familiarity and usability. For example, Gosling went against the grain, and 
refused to put stuff into Java, such as operator overloading, which makes 
the language harder to learn and makes it easier to make mistakes in 
programming. Now that the world is more comfortable with garbage 
collection, threads, and virtual machines, it would be desirable to try 
another programming language (like Smalltalk) where more cleanliness and 
elegance are embodied.

Réf. ACM: Ryder, B. G., Soffa, M. L., and Burnett, M. 2005. The impact of 
software engineering research on modern progamming languages. ACM Trans. 
Softw. Eng. Methodol. 14, 4 (Oct. 2005), 431-477. DOI= 
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101815.1101818

Titre: The Impact of Software Engineering Research on Modern Progamming 
Languages

Résumé: Software engineering research and programming language design have 
enjoyed a symbiotic relationship, with traceable impacts since the 1970s, 
when these areas were first distinguished from one another. This report 
documents this relationship by focusing on several major features of 
current programming languages: data and procedural abstraction, types, 
concurrency, exceptions, and visual programming mechanisms. The influences 
are determined by tracing references in publications in both fields, 
obtaining oral histories from language designers delineating influences on 
them, and tracking cotemporal research trends and ideas as demonstrated by 
workshop topics, special issue publications, and invited talks in the two 
fields. In some cases there is conclusive data supporting influence. In 
other cases, there are circumstantial arguments (i.e., cotemporal ideas) 
that indicate influence. Using this approach, this study provides evidence 
of the impact of software engineering research on modern programming 
language design and documents the close relationship between these two fields.

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