Programming Languages Student Reading Group

The PL Reading Group provides a space for discussion and analysis of conference and journal papers related to Programming Languages practice and theory, serving also as a space for students to freely practice their English talking and reading skills. It is open to any university student with an interest in the field.

November 26th marks the inaugural meeting of the Programming Languages Reading Group.

The meeting will be located at the 3rd floor meeting room of the Computer Science Department, CEC Building, Beaucheff Campus of the University of Chile.

If you plan to attend this meeting, we ask you to first read the paper appointed for that day in section Meeting Papers. During the meeting we will also collect suggestions for future papers and project an internal communication channel (most likely a mailing list).

The PL Reading Group meets every Tuesday at 13PM CLT, starting November 26, 2013, excepting holidays.

• Nov 26th, 2013. Guy Steele, Growing a language
  This paper is a transcript of a talk given at OOPSLA '98. A video (with some glitches) is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

• P.J. Landin, The next 700 programming languages

• William Cook, On understanding data abstraction, revisited

You can directly access the ACM Digital Library, Springer Link and other scholarly providers from the University wi-fi networks (DCC-AIR, in-cec…). If you want to access/download the papers outside the University Network, you can (at least) follow one of the following procedures:

1. Connect to the CEC VPN (es).
2. Create a SOCKS proxy tunnel on ssh either to the dichato or anakena servers and configure your internet browser to direct traffic through it.