Colocated with ECOOP 2014 in Uppsala, Sweden
Paper submission:Monday 12th May 2014Monday 16th June 2014 Notification:Friday 30th May 2014Monday 23rd June 2014 Talk abstracts: Monday 23rd June 2014 Final papers due:Friday 20th June 2014Tuesday 1st July 2014 Workshop: Monday 28th July 2014
Programming languages tend to evolve in response to user needs, hardware advances, and research developments. Language evolution artefacts may include new compilers and interpreters or new language standards. Evolving programming languages is however challenging at various levels. Firstly, the impact on developers can be negative. For example, if two language versions are incompatible (e.g., Python 2 and 3) developers must choose to either co-evolve their codebase (which may be costly) or reject the new language version (which may have support implications). Secondly, evaluating a proposed language change is difficult; language designers often lack the infrastructure to assess the change. This may lead to older features remaining in future language versions to maintain backward compatibility, increasing the language's complexity (e.g., FORTRAN 77 to Fortran 90). Thirdly, new language features may interact badly with existing features, leading to unforeseen bugs and ambiguities (e.g., the addition of Java generics). This workshop brings together researchers and developers interested in programming language evolution, to share new ideas and insights, to discuss challenges and solutions, and to advance programming language design.
Topics include (but are not limited to):If you have any questions relating to the suitability of a submission please contact the program chairs.
We are accepting both full papers and talk abstracts for short 15 minute talks (which may be more informal in style). Both kinds of contribution should be submitted via the EasyChair submission page for PLE14.
Talk abstracts should be no more than 300 words, written in English. PC members and chairs may submit talk abstracts.
Submitted papers must be written in English and formatted according to the ACM SIGPLAN style (double column, 9pt format) and limited to 6 pages, including figures and references. Appendices may be included for review purpose only (and clearly marked as such), although the submission should stand alone without them. Any paper submitted must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN republication policy. All submissions will be subject to peer review by the program committee.
Any PC member, other than the chairs, may author or co-author a submitted paper (they will be excluded from any evaluation or discussion of this paper during the review process).
Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of any accepted paper will be expected to present their work at the workshop.
Anyone wishing to attend PLE'14 can register via the ECOOP registration for workshops.
| Lecture Hall VIII | |
| 10:25 - 10:30 | PLE14 Opening (slides) |
| 10:30 - 11:20 | Full papers session (Chair: Raoul-Gabriel Urma) [20 mins + 5 mins questions each] |
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| 11:20 - 12:00 | Talks session 1 (Chair: Dominic Orchard) [15 mins + 5 mins questions each] |
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| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch |
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Lecture Hall X | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Keynote: Martin Odersky, The Evolution of Scala (slides) (show abstract >>>) |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Extended coffee break |
Lecture Hall VIII | |
| 15:30 - 16:10 | Talks session 2 (Chair: Alan Mycroft) [15 mins + 5 mins questions each] |
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| 16:10 - 16:30 | Discussion (slides) |
| 16:30 | End of Workshop |
Program chairs: