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Prof. Andrew P. Black

EPRIDE Workshop --- Extensible Program Representations

Those involved in building tools and program analyses may be interested in the following workshop. It evolved out of some work that Daniel and I started on figuring out how to make the "required methods" analysis modular in Squeak. We are hoping to involve the tool-building communities from a number of languages, but a couple more Squeakers would always be welcome.

If you have connections with other tool-building or program analysis communities, please pass along this invitation to participate --- or give me the contact information.

Call for Participation: Workshop on Extensible Program Representations for Interactive Development Environments (EPRIDE)

The EPRIDE 2007 Workshop will be held on Monday July 30th, immediately preceding ECOOP (European conference on Object-Oriented Programming) in Berlin.

The thesis of the workshop is that no single, pre-defined representation of programs in an IDE can possibly be adequate for all of the uses that may emerge; instead, we must focus on extensible representations. How can we engineer representations that are extensible and efficient, and yet provide clients with a simple way of getting the information that they need?

The workshop aims to bring together those involved in building plugins and restructuring tools for IDEs — the consumers of information about the program — and those involved in developing parsers and program analyses that create the information needed for the tools — the providers of information.

For more information, and to find out how to participate, please go to http://c2.com/w4/epride . The deadline for applications is 13th May.

Daniel Vainsencher-3

Re: EPRIDE Workshop --- Extensible Program Representations

BTW, for us this work started out mining yet another of those many gems
in the Smalltalk way of doing things - the way the model for Smalltalk
code in the development environment is connected to the runtime
representation (so natural to everyone here, its hardly worth
mentioning, but rather rare in other worlds).

One thing that happened as Andrew and I were trying to add some smarts
to the tools, is we began to ask ourselves how the code analysis
algorithms should be split between the tools and the code model. On the
one hand, we can't put everything in the code model. On the other,
placing algorithms inside tools makes it harder to reuse them (ask
anyone working on alternate browsers). Turns out this gets more
complicated when the algorithms are pretty demanding in terms of run
time, and we think these are problems that we share with other
communities, and that probably none of us have a single complete answer
to, so we might learn interesting ideas from one another. So this
workshop might be interesting for anyone interested in code analysis,
development tools, and what's between them.

Daniel Vainsencher

Andrew P. Black wrote:

>
> Those involved in building tools and program analyses may be
> interested in the following workshop. It evolved out of some work
> that Daniel and I started on figuring out how to make the "required
> methods" analysis modular in Squeak. We are hoping to involve the
> tool-building communities from a number of languages, but a couple
> more Squeakers would always be welcome.
>
> If you have connections with other tool-building or program analysis
> communities, please pass along this invitation to participate --- or
> give me the contact information.
> * *
> *Call for Participation: Workshop on Extensible Program
> Representations for Interactive Development Environments (EPRIDE)*
> *
> *
> The EPRIDE 2007 Workshop will be held on Monday July 30th, immediately
> preceding ECOOP (European conference on Object-Oriented Programming)
> in Berlin.
>
> The thesis of the workshop is that no single, pre-defined
> representation of programs in an IDE can possibly be adequate for all
> of the uses that may emerge; instead, we must focus on extensible
> representations. How can we engineer representations that are
> extensible and efficient, and yet provide clients with a simple way of
> getting the information that they need?
>
> The workshop aims to bring together those involved in building plugins
> and restructuring tools for IDEs — the consumers of information about
> the program — and those involved in developing parsers and program
> analyses that /create/ the information needed for the tools — the
> providers of information.
>
> For more information, and to find out how to participate, please go to
> http://c2.com/w4/epride . The deadline for applications is 13th May.
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