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Subject: PEM: Erik Meijer (UU) | The Next 700 Scripting Languages |  7.06.99

 
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   Dear Environmentalists,

   Because  your  friendly  PEM organizer was away for the last couple of
   weeks, so were the PEMs. But now we're both back.

   The  first  PEM after the break is at a different day (Monday) because
   we  have  a  speaker  from  outside  Amsterdam.  Erik  Meijer from the
   University of Utrecht will tell us everything about components, how to
   glue  them  together,  and, especially, how not to glue them together.
   :-)

   Again,  please  note  that this PEM will be this Monday, as opposed to
   this Thursday.

   This announcement can be found at <http://www.cwi.nl/~pem>

                      The Next 700 Scripting Languages

   Date:     7.06.99
   Time:    10:00
   Venue:   M2.80, CWI
   Speaker: Erik Meijer (UU)
   Title:   The Next 700 Scripting Languages

   In  the  ``Interim  Report  To  The  President'',  president Clinton's
   information  technology  advisory  committee  recommends  to fund more
   fundamental  research  in  software  development methods and component
   technology.  In  particular  the committee indicate that this research
   should  be  aimed  at  component-based  software design and production
   techniques.

   Component-based  systems  are built by by glueing together preexisting
   software   components   using  scripting  languages.  In  contrast  to
   traditional  systems  programming  languages  such  as  C and C++ that
   emphasize   run-time   efficiency,   scripting   languages   emphasize
   programmer-time  efficiency  by  leveraging of the development efforts
   put into producing the leaf components.

   We  argue  that  contemporary  scripting  languages such as Tcl, Perl,
   JavaScript  and  Visual  Basic  are  the  wrong  solution to the right
   problem  and  that  lazy  functional  languages are superior component
   scripting  languages.  We  illustrate  our  thesis  by giving numerous
   examples using Haskell and COM.
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   The  programming environment meetings are a forum for the presentation
   and  discussion  of  new  ideas,  ongoing and finished work. A typical
   meeting  addresses  a subject in the area of programming environments,
   program  generation, algebraic specification, term rewriting, parsing,
   etc.  A presentation ideally takes between 45 and 90 minutes. Meetings
   taking  longer  than 45 minutes are interrupted by a coffeebreak. Most
   Thursdays,  a  meeting is held which starts at 10:00 am. in one of the
   rooms at CWI/WINS. Exceptionally, dates or times may change.

   The    program    of    the    meetings    is    available   on   WWW:
   http://www.cwi.nl/~pem
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