Postmodernism at Curry On
Over the last week, several of the Grace project people were at the ECOOP and Curry On conferences in Rome and gave a few talks that were recorded. Here’s the first one:
View ArticleHalf a Life in Software
Continuing the series of ECOOP talk videos, here’s a talk that actually mentions Grace (if you stick with it).
View ArticleObject Inheritance Without Classes
The last entry in our ECOOP video series is Tim Jones presenting his and Michael Homer’s work on modelling inheritance in Grace: As a bonus, here’s Tim’s talk at ECOOP last year on Brand Objects for...
View ArticleGrace at SPLASH 2016
Wondering why I couldn’t find it here, I remembered that this post was on the SPLASH blog. So, just for the record: here it is: Grace at SPLASH
View ArticleUniform Referents
Back in 1969, at the first “Software Engineering” conference, Doug Ross presented a paper entitled “Uniform Referents: An Essential Property for a Software Engineering Language” [Ross 1970]. Ross’s...
View ArticleGrace with Less Class
Tim Jones’ PhD thesis on Grace’s design – Classless Object Semantics is now in VUW’s research repository. If you’re interested in this kind of stuff, it’s a surprisingly good read… Objects have been...
View ArticleGrace at SPLASH
Grace will be at SPLASH 2018 in Boston this year. In particular, on Sunday 4 November, there is a Grace Workshop that will look at the past, present, and future of the project. Of most general interest...
View ArticleTransient Typechecks are (almost) Free – ECOOP 2019
Grace will be at ECOOP2019 in London this month, when we’re presenting a paper “Transient Typechecks are (almost) Free” about the Moth Grace VM build with Graal.
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Here’s James’ ECOOP talk about transient typechecking in the Moth VM.
View ArticleThe Last Five Years
Sometimes it’s easy to forget how much Grace has changes over the last five years. Most of the major language design decisions were made early, and since then … what? Quite a lot, actually! I just had...
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