Mon 5 Nov 2018 11:50 - 11:55 at Beacon Hill - Keynote: Chugh Chair(s): Joshua Sunshine

Our community believes that new domain-specific languages should be as general as possible to increase their impact. However, I argue in this essay that we should stop claiming generality for new domain-specific languages. More general domain-specific languages induce more boilerplate code. Moreover, domain-specific languages are co-developed with their applications in practice, and tend to be specific for these applications. Thus, I argue we should stop claiming generality in favor of documenting how domain-specific language based software development is beneficial to the overall software development process. The acceptance criteria for scientific literature should make the same shift: accepting good domain-specific language engineering practice, instead of the next language to rule them all.

Daco Harkes a PhD student in the Programming Languages Research Group at the Delft University of Technology supervised by Eelco Visser. He is interested in programming languages in general, and specifically in declarative programming and incremental computing. His research is focused on declarative programming for (web-based) information systems. During his PhD he has created IceDust, a domain-specific language for incrementally computing derived values in information systems.

Mon 5 Nov

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10:30 - 12:00
Keynote: ChughPLATEAU at Beacon Hill
Chair(s): Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University
10:30
65m
Talk
Direct Manipulation Programming in Sketch-n-Sketch: Three Years, Three IdeasKeynote
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Ravi Chugh University of Chicago
11:35
5m
Talk
Interdisciplinary Programming Language Design - Preview
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Michael Coblenz Carnegie Mellon University, Jonathan Aldrich Carnegie Mellon University, Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University, Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University
11:40
5m
Talk
Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design - Preview
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Jeff Bezanson Julia Computing, Benjamin Chung Northeastern University, Jiahao Chen Capital One, Stefan Karpinski , Viral B Shah Julia Computing, Jan Vitek Northeastern University, Lionel Zoubritzky École Normale Supérieure
11:45
5m
Talk
On the Usage of “Pythonic” Idioms in Python Programs - Preview
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Carol V. Alexandru University of Zurich, José J. Merchante Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Sebastiano Panichella Zurich University of Applied Science/University of Zurich, Sebastian Proksch University of Zurich, Harald Gall University of Zurich, Gregorio Robles Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
11:50
5m
Talk
We Should Stop Claiming Generality in our Domain-Specific Language Papers - Preview
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Daco Harkes Delft University of Technology
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