Lambda the Ultimate

Libraries are central to all major scientific, engineering, and business areas, yet the design, implementation, and use of libraries are underdeveloped arts. This workshop is one of the first steps in the process of placing all aspects of libraries on a sound technical and scientific basis through research into fundamental issues and documentation of best practices.

A software library is an organized collection of code with associated tools supporting programming in general or in specific domains, usually united by a specified set of principles and conventions. Most libraries are aimed at the use by several people and in different environments...

This is an important topic, so I urge you to take a look at the CFP for the workshop, and see if you can help improve the state of the art by contributing.

Not much that is new here, but the trend towards concurrency is one we discussed a few times, and which seemed to attract interest.

Bray's comments regarding erlang and other languages are sure to annoy LtU readers. Let's not start a flamefest. Let me just remark that even if you want shared data structures, Java isn't your only option. You should at least check out Ada... (and you can compile Ada to the JVM, if that's what you want to do. let's not confuse language and implementation).