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If you're interested in this kind of thing, definitely also check out the upcoming HOPL conference -- co-located (whatever that means for a virtual conference)
by the_benno 5y ago
If you're interested in this kind of thing, definitely also check out the upcoming HOPL conference -- co-located (whatever that means for a virtual conference) with PLDI this June. Matthias was on the program committee, along with a bunch of other PL OGs.
Website: https://hopl4.sigplan.org https://hopl4.sigplan.org
Papers: https://dl.acm.org/toc/pacmpl/2020/4/HOPL https://dl.acm.org/toc/pacmpl/2020/4/HOPL
- sanxiyn 5y agoHOPL takes place roughly every 15 years. Previous HOPLs were held in 1978, 1993, and 2007.
- the_benno 5y agoLooking at the talks/papers from 1978 is a trip: Grace Hopper gave the keynote, and there were talks by legends like Backus, Naur, Liskov, Kurtz, and McCarthy. There are transcripts available of all of the talks as well as Q&A sessions and the like -- really fascinating to look back on now with the benefit of hindsight. For example, McCarthy was asked [1] whether he believed "that LISP has made any long-lasting contributions to the more 'normal' programming languages, e.g., FORTRAN and ALGOL, COBOL, etc." He responded that, yes, he thought conditional expressions and recursion were here to stay. Safe to say he was right about that! [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800025.1198363 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800025.1198363
- wilsonthewhale 5y agoMost of the papers were a joy to read. The C++ one just seemed like a massive changelog, though.
- bryik 5y agoOh cool! "JavaScript: The first 20 years" looks like pretty deep internet lore; perhaps I'll finally find out what happened to ES4. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386327 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386327