# Call for Talks and Participation

Second Workshop on Programming Research in Mainstream Languages (PRiML 2021)

Glasgow, UK (Online), Mon July 12th, 2021

https://agozillon.github.io/PRiML

# About PRiML

The Second Workshop on Programming Research in Mainstream Languages (PRiML 2021) will be held online on 12 July 2021. PRiML 2021 is colocated with the 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2021) hosted by the University of Glasgow, UK.

The PRiML workshop will consist of invited talks by leading experts and contributed talks selected by the Program Committee.

Programming language (PL) research in mainstream languages, entails challenges beyond those encountered within the isolation of the laboratory. Mainstream PLs, are supported by their many users, who expect stability, but so too innovation – whether within the language itself, or its standard libraries. A mainstream PL needs to support the initial concept critique, subsequent implementations, political calculations, and, ultimate bureaucracy involved in the execution of full support for novel features – often across multiple implementations. All that debate is due to real concerns about feature interaction.

Performing PL research within a mainstream language can bring a hitherto proven research concept from the laboratory to a wider audience. Moreover, of course, the lack of isolation presents fresh challenges as new concepts must find their own idiomatic expression over the debate on feature interaction. Such contours can be found both within existing PLs; and new PLs: with or without the funding or wherewithal to approach a mainstream audience.

On the other hand, the prototype PL crafted for experimenting with a research idea might have features remote from existing mainstream PLs. Choosing a mainstream PL to host the same research entails a fresh examination of the host’s features for their suitability for the research. The implication might be a very different feature set from the host or simulation to those of the prototype in the mainstream PL. Either way, the added benefit is solving the same research problem using a fresh set of features.

Video proceedings from last year's PRiML 2020 workshop are available at https://agozillon.github.io/PRiML/priml-2020.html.

# Important Dates

Proposal submission deadline: Friday June 4th

Author notification: by Friday June 11th

Workshop: Monday July 12th

# Submission of Proposals

Talk titles along with abstracts should be submitted to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=priml2021. Informal enquiries to the program chairs can use the contact details listed below.

# Registration

PRiML 2021 will be held online. Registration is via the ICALP website.

# Program Chairs

The workshop is organised by Seyed Hossein Haeri (IOHK and University of Bergen, Norway) and Paul Keir (University of the West of Scotland, UK).