>Who said that... The conference. From http://days2011.scala-lang.org/node/91 http://days2011.scala-lang.org/node/91 : Submissions must be in English and at m

>Who said that... The conference. From http://days2011.scala-lang.org/node/91 http://days2011.scala-lang.org/node/91 : Submissions must be in English and at most 12 pages total length in the standard ACM SIGPLAN two-column conference format (10pt). Nearly all academic papers in computer science and engineering look like this. Not to say they've converged on an optimal format, but it wasn't exactly a creative decision on the part of these authors.