[Grace-core] Version 2 of letter

[James Noble]

> Looks good to me, please send it.

done!

> I've been working on some graceful programs for collection classes.   
> I'll post them soon.

Good.
Andrew and I have had a good talk about exceptions - he has the notes  
and should post them
up to the wiki in a few days.

I'll have a day or so somewhat slack here now:
I'm thinking of collecting (again) the state of things so far.

do you prefer latex or wiki?

> I also have a student who seems very interested in working on the  
> project.  We should probably think about seeing if we can get some  
> funding to at least support a student or two.

yes indeed.  And then have enough done so that they can start on  
something somewhere.

> Kim
>
>
>
> On Oct 25, 2010, at 4:09 PM, James Noble wrote:
>
>> Hi Kim
>>
>> Andrew and I worked on this during the duller talks
>> at SoftVis. What do you think? Shall we send this out?
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>> Subject: Progress on Grace (New OO language)
>>
>> Dear Supporters
>>
>> This is a brief update on our progress on the new OO language
>> project to date, an outline of our plans for the near future, and a
>> suggestion of some ways in which you could become more directly  
>> involved.
>>
>> In the four months since ECOOP, we (Kim Bruce, Andrew Black and James
>> Noble) have made some progress on the language design. We have  
>> refined
>> the principles from the manifesto, and identified a target user model
>> for the language. We are working towards a "strawman" language  
>> design,
>> which we hope will be ready for your critique by the end of the year.
>> We have chosen a name for the language: Grace.
>>
>> Last week, we formally announced the project to the wider OOPL
>> community with two panels at OOPSLA/SPLASH - one at the educators'
>> symposium and one at the main conference, the later also including
>> Alex Buckley and Jens Palsberg as discussants who were not part of  
>> the
>> language effort.  We've attached the slides we presented at the
>> panel. The panel was covered in the CACM blog:
>>
>> http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/100389-grace-a-manifesto-for-a-new-educational-object-oriented-programming-language/fulltext
>>
>> and also reported by other bloggers.  While it is still early, we  
>> feel
>> that the panels were generally well received, and several new people
>> have indicated they support the effort - and perhaps that they will  
>> be
>> able to contribute substantially in the new year.
>>
>> As part of ensuring that the language design work is as open as
>> possible, we have established a rudimentary web-site and blog for the
>> project, at http://gracelang.org. We plan to try to write short
>> articles at least weekly to provide evidence of ongoing progress in
>> the project.  We have also established a mailing list,
>> grace-interest at cs.pdx.edu, for supporters and others interested in  
>> the
>> project.  If you would like to join this list, you can register here:
>>
>> https://mailhost.cecs.pdx.edu/mailman/listinfo/grace-interest
>>
>> To support detailed design work, we have a second (higher traffic)
>> email list: "grace-core" for the core language designers, along  
>> with a
>> wiki and svn repository. If you would really like to follow our
>> emerging work-in-progress very closely, then email black at cs.pdx.edu
>> including a username/password pair generated by "htpasswd -n
>> <username of your choice>" and we can grant you access.
>>
>> If you would like posting rights on the blog, you will need to send
>> black at cs.pdx.edu a username and cleartext password.
>>
>> This brings us to the first place where we really need immediate  
>> help:
>> managing the public "face" of the project, including the blog.  If  
>> you
>> would like to help with this, please let us know.
>>
>> Finally, we are starting to plan some Graceful meetings for next  
>> year.
>> Since we expect to have a strawman specification soon, there should  
>> be
>> lots to talk about!  We would like to start planning these meetings
>> now, so here are some possibilities:
>>
>> * UK/Europe late February - around the time of the ECOOP PC meeting
>> * West Coast US late May/early June - meeting aligned with PLDI
>> * Lancaster late July - before or after ECOOP
>> * Portland late October - before or after OOPSLA
>>
>> If you would like to participate in (or help us organize!) such a
>> meeting, please let us know.  Please also tell us if there is  
>> anything
>> else that you think should be happening, and how you would like to
>> help.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Kim, Andrew & James
>>
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