[Grace-interest] Progress on New OO language "Grace"

[James Noble]

Dear Grace Supporters

This is another brief update on our progress on the Grace project to  
date.

We have been working our way through the language design, and have
sketched out "version 0.1" drafts of most of the main operational  
language
constructs. We're starting to think about type and module systems.

We are posting these as design notes (Gracenotes :-) to the blog at
http://gracelang.org - and we'd really appreciate your comments if
you have time to look over the posts there.  We have found that
blog posts and attached comments make it easier to organise
discussions than carrying on conversations on mailing lists.

We hope you'll subscribe to the blog, there are RSS feeds
for posts -
	http://gracelang.org/applications/feed/
and comments -
	http://gracelang.org/applications/comments/feed/

(these are also available at the bottom of the blog page)
and, as you have time, to provide comments and feedback.
We do want this to be as open a process as possible.
If you would like posting rights on the blog, you will need to send
black at cs.pdx.edu a username and cleartext password.


Finally, we are starting to plan some Grace meetings next year:
* 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

We are starting to think seriously about the February meeting.
If you're likely to be able to make it to that meeting, please let
us know - and also if you have any preferences about timing
(just before the 25th or after the 26th of February) or location
(UK South East vs Europe - most likely Darmstadt)  please let
us know too.

cheers

Kim, Andrew & James

PS: for detailed design work, we have a second (higher traffic)
email list: "grace-core" for the core language design, 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.