Onward! 2016 Promotion

[Sean McDirmid]

The Onward call for papers is on, with a submission deadline of April 1st this year. Please consider submitting your edgy PL ideas.

Onward! is looking for grand visions and new paradigms that could make a big difference in how we will one day build software. But Onward! is not looking for research-as-usual papers—conferences like OOPSLA are the place for that. Those conferences require rigorous validation such as theorems or empirical experiments, which are necessary for scientific progress, but which typically preclude discussion of early-stage ideas. Onward! papers must also supply some degree of validation because mere speculation is not a good basis for progress. However, Onward! accepts less rigorous methods of validation such as compelling arguments, exploratory implementations, and substantial examples. The use of worked-out examples to support new ideas is strongly encouraged.

Onward! is reaching out for constructive criticism of current software development technology and practices, and to present ideas that could change the realm of software development. Experienced researchers, graduate students, practitioners, and anyone else dissatisfied with the state of our art is encouraged to share insights about how to reform software development.

http://2016.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2016-papers

[Job van der Zwan]

Would John Gustavson's Unum work be appropriate for this? It's not directly a programming language, but on the other hand: messing with something as fundamental as number representation in computing is pretty edgy.

http://johngustafson.net/unums.html

[Boaz Rosenan]

I would say this look pretty much in scope.  Onward! is not strictly a programming language (PL) conference, but it is organized by the PL community.

In 2014 I had an Onward! paper about using version control for storing the state of applications.  This is not a PL topic, but it was certainly in scope.

Putting what I believe Onward! is looking for into my own words, it is looking for those ideas that if they work they will revolutionize the way we do software.  So innovative algorithms for solving specific problems are less in scope, but anything about HOW we make software, I think is in scope.

Overall, I published two Onward! papers so far (2014 and 2015) and I consider it my favorite conference :-)

Boaz

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[Job van der Zwan]

Cool, I'll forward the suggestion to Gustafson then then.