ACM   SIGPLAN
 

Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

SIGPLAN is the Special Interest Group of ACM that focuses on Programming Languages. The group promotes awareness and advancement of research and practice in programming languages. The SIG serves as a forum for members to design, present and learn about new programming techniques, languages and abstractions. This semester we will host a series of tutorials on exciting programming language topics including templates, Python and virtual machines. Additionally, we will hold regular discussions on programming language topices of interest to the membership. All parties are welcome to attend regardless of experience level.

Mailing list:  sigplan-l
Contact e-mail:  sigplan@acm.uiuc.edu
Chairs:  Ryan Morlok and Sameer Sundresh

Also see the Programming Languages Seminar.

Schedule:
SIGPLAN meets Mondays at 8:30pm in the ACM office (1104 SC) and conference room (1112 SC).
Sep 19 A comparison of C++ templates and Java 1.5 generics [Generics in the Java Programming Language] [C++ Standard Template Library Documentation]
Sep 26 What are the parts of a programming language, how do you define one?
Oct 3 Discussion on Lotus Notes
Oct 10 canceled, recovering from conference
Oct 17 organizational meeting: fixed schedule, general discussion
Oct 24 Extensible Programming Languages (Sameer Sundresh) [slides]
Oct 31 OCAML (Ryan Morlok)
Nov 7 Duck Typing (Jacob Lee)
Nov 14 Virtual Machines (Joe Re)
Nov 28 Dynamic typing vs. Static typing (Michael Ilseman)
Dec 5 Typed assembly language--LLVM (Ryan Morlok)
[Spring 2005 archives]