Self-interest May 2009

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New Self Blog
by Russell Allen 15 May '09

15 May '09

Hi guys, I've created a new blog for Self at: http://blog.selflanguage.org and emailed planet.smalltalk.org to get it added. The blog is running on wordpress.com, so anyone who is prepared to contribute Self related posts is encouraged to get a wordpress.com account (free) and let me know their email/username so I can add them as a contributor. Anything Self related should be fine, including benchmarks, general tips on Self programming, insights into ongoing projects such as Klein, reminiscences about Self history etc. Looking forward to many useful blogs and tips.... Best, Russell

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David Ungar Receives Dahl-Nygaard Prize
by Russell Allen 14 May '09

14 May '09

Congrats to Dave for receiving the Dahl-Nygaard Prize for Outstanding Work in Object-Oriented Programming! http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/news.david_ungar-dahl-nyga… "Kaiserslautern, GERMANY,May, 11, 2009 David Ungar, of IBM Research, will receive the 2009 Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize for his groundbreaking work in the field of object-orientation. The Dahl-Nygaard Prize will recognize Ungar's complete body of work, most notably for his role in inventing Self, the object-oriented programming language based on the concept of prototypes. Object-oriented programming helps people build more sophisticated computer software by dividing up a program into a number of separate bundles, each possessing the data and behavior needed to do a particular job. The Dahl-Nygaard prizes are the most prestigious awards given for work in object-oriented programming. Established in 2004 by the Association Internationale Pour les Technologies Objets (AITO), they are named for Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, who developed the first object-oriented programming language. Self, co-invented with Randall B. Smith, Craig Chambers, Urs Hölzle, and developed with Ole Agesen, Lars Bak, Elgin Lee, John Maloney, and Mario Wolczko, has had a profound effect upon the field of computer programming. It introduced advanced adaptive compilation technology, and inspired a number of languages based on its concepts, including JavaScript, which has become one of the most popular tools for developing dynamic web pages. The technologies introduced in Self have only been partially realized, and we can expect them to continue to create an impact in the coming years. In addition to his roles in inventing the elegant Self language and in enabling managed runtimes with generational garbage collection, Ungar has improved the user experience of object-oriented and other systems with his 1993 paper co-authored with Bay-Wei Chang, titled "Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface.” This innovative work applied cartoon animation techniques to the legibility of user interfaces. In 2004 it won the lasting impact award at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Ungar and Smith's Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications (OOPSLA) paper in 1987 entitled, "Self: The Power of Simplicity," was also previously recognized in 2006 as one of the three most influential OOPSLA papers from 1986 to 1996. Ungar will be honored at the 2009 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) which takes place from July 6-10 in Genova, Italy. Ungar graduated as a doctor of philosophy in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986. His doctoral advisor was David Patterson and his dissertation was entitled "The Design and Evaluation of a High-Performance Smalltalk System" it won an 1986 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. He was an assistant professor at Stanford University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Computer Systems Lab, where in addition to working on Self, he taught programming languages and computer architecture, from 1985 to 1990. Thereafter, he moved to Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he and Randall B. Smith co-led the Self effort. Subsequently, Ungar helped Sun harness Self's implementation technology for their Java virtual machine, and was honored within Sun as a Distinguished Engineer. In 2006 he was recognized as a Distinguished Engineer by the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2007, Ungar joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Lab and is currently working within the Dynamic Optimization Group. He holds 20 patents. Previous IBM winners of the Dahl-Nygaard Prize include John Vlissides, who posthumously won the prize in 2006. "

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Re: [self-interest] Self 4.4 Alpha 2 Release
by Jeremiah S. Junken 13 May '09

13 May '09

perhaps time to grab an irc channel on gimp.net or freenode or something? On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 15:29 -0300, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: > > > Russell, > > congratulations on the new release! I'll try to test the Mac version > (if > it runs on PPC - I have no Intel Macs) later this week and can also > test > Solaris Sparc versions (I still use Solaris 8 on a 12 year old > machine). > > I have seen some new interest in Self lately by people who aren't very > familiar with it and who are not on this mailing list. Perhaps one > strategy for letting people know that there is stuff happening would > be > to have some blog posts show up at http://planet.smalltalk.org > > -- Jecel > > > > >

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Self Website - selflanguage.org
by Russell Allen 11 May '09

11 May '09

Dear all, As part of an effort to get Self moving again and as a precursor to a new release, we now have a new official Self website at: http://selflanguage.org This site will hopefully be the focal point of Self related information. I will be changing the links to self.sourceforge.net where I am able (ie in Wikipedia etc). I would be greatful if you could all: - link to this site when talking about Self on blogs etc. Self does not have the most 'google-able' name so this would help people find Self and Self related materials. - send me any relevant links or information to add to the site. A technical note: selflanguage.org is built from the Git repository at http://github.com/russellallen/self/tree/website using the Sphinx documentation system recently developed to handle the documentation needs of Python. If you have suggested changes, please either email them to me or alternatively fork a copy of the repository on GitHub, make your changes and I can then pull them into the main repo. Best, Russell

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Self-interest May 2009