PL Research and its Consequences on PL Curriculum
The programming language research community-a fraction of the much larger and more vibrant language community-has increasingly turned inward and focused on narrow, technical contributions rather than the larger concerns of the computer science community or programmers in general. It is not surprising that our colleagues and students reciprocate our lack of interest in their problems by replacing language courses with newer, more exciting offering that address broader issues. Bluntly, the PL research community brought this workshop on itself.
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