From: Vadim Zaytsev 
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:25:43 +0100 (CET)
Subject: 24 Feb, 11:00, L017, Tijs van der Storm, Language Design Smells
To: SWAT

Dear colleagues,

This week, on Friday, at 11:00 (usual time), we will have a SEM
Colloquium presentation about design of software languages, given by
Dr. Tijs van der Storm. The abstract will be sent to you ASAP, but
please already consider putting this time in your agenda, if you
haven't already done so.

   Date: 24 February 2012
   Time: 11:00
   Room: L017 (CWI)
   Speaker: Tijs van der Storm
   Title: Language Design Smells
   Abstract: TBA

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Yours,
         Vadim.

Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:24:42 +0100 (CET)
Subject: SEM surprise unveiled! Today at 11:00
From: Vadim Zaytsev
To: SWAT

Dear colleagues,

The presentation will go on as planned, please look forward to it. The
abstract can be found below.

  Date: 24 February 2012
  Time: 11:00
  Room: L017 (CWI)
  Speaker: Tijs van der Storm
  Title: Language Design Smells
  Abstract: see below

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                 Language Design Smells

Computer language design is hot. Some recent new programming languages
include: Julia, Dart, Go, CoffeeScript, and Clojure. Apparently, there
is a need to find better ways of expressing ourselves as programmers,
hopefully allowing us to write code that is more reliable or easier to
understand. Moreover, domain-specific languages (DSLs) are also,
again, becoming more popular, both in academia and industry. However,
if we want to make the DSL approach to software construction
successful in the long run, we need to consider the best and worst
practices in language design.  In this talk I'll approach this problem
from the notion of "language design smell": a possible indicator of a
design problem in a computer language. This can be seen as a first
step towards a body of knowledge on language design. I will present
more questions than answers, so I very much welcome discussion.
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Yours,
        Vadim.