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Lightweight Languages Workshop Webcast from MIT

Posted by michael on from the lively-discussions dept.

Jonathan Edwards writes "The Lightweight Languages Workshop (LL4) will be webcast live from MIT tomorrow. Previous years have seen lively discussions between the proponents of languages like Perl, Python, and Scheme. Check out the program at the website."

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  1. before you waste bandwidth by t482 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The program is available here and the abstracts are available here

  2. Re:Lightweight? by evin · · Score: 3, Informative

    At the LL1 page they define a lightweight language as one which is easy to learn.

    Following the analogy of heavyweight vs lightweight threads, I initially thought it would be about languages which are either very small once compiled, or that have simple interpreters.

    But who am I to question some guys at MIT?

  3. Re:Sponsored by Microsoft Research by jbrandon · · Score: 2, Informative

    The only light language that I've seen Microsoft push is VBScript.

    This is Microsoft Research, which is different from Microsoft, proper. For instance, MR sponsors Simon Peyton Jones, who spends an enormous amount of effort on Haskell.

    If you look at proceedings from years past, you will see that this isn't the MS fan club meeting.

  4. Lua? Anyone? Anyone? by cookd · · Score: 2, Informative

    Strangely, one of the best (IMHO) "lightweight" languages isn't even mentioned (as far as I can tell, anyway). Lua is really lightweight (easy to learn, and very easy on resource usage) yet very powerful. I wonder why it doesn't get more attention...

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