Prof. Stéphane Ducasse: Pharo and Smalltalk

Prof. Stephane Ducasse will present Pharo, the current Pharo development effort and discuss future work on Pharo.

Bio:
Stephane is directeur de recherche at Inria. He has more than 16 years of experience in software maintenance. He leads the RMoD ( http://rmod.lille.inria.fr ) team. He is expert in two domains: object-oriented language design and reengineering. He worked on traits, composable groups of methods, and this work got some impact. Traits have been introduced in Pharo, Perl, PHP and under a variant into Scala, Fortress of SUN Microsystems. He is one of the leader of Pharo a new reflective language supporting life programming www.pharo.org (http://www.pharo.org/). He is also expert on software quality, program understanding, program visualizations, reengineering and metamodeling. He is one of the developer of Moose, an open-source software analysis platform moosetechnology.org (http://www.moosetechnology.org/). He created www.synectique.eu (http://www.synectique.eu/) a company building dedicated tools for advanced software analysis.

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/