=== 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
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