I'm a permanent researcher at INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, team Rmod.
Squeak by Example is a open-source book about the Squeak development environment for the classic Smalltalk-80 programming language. Pharo by Example updates the book to use the Pharo fork and adds some new chapters.
Research Interests
Reflective Systems, Context-oriented Programming, Software Evolution, Language Design, Implementation of Dynamic Languages, Compilers, Bio-inspired Computing.
News 
- 2010-08-12 The Paper "Modeling Features at Runtime" is now available online: abstract,
PDF
- 2010-07-28 Pharo by Example can now be ordered at Amazon.com
- 2010-07-26 Pharo 1.1 has been released! Link
- 2010-07-12 I have a flattr account: http://flattr.com
- 2010-07-12 RMoD is looking for a Moose Engineer: more infos
- 2010-07-07 The Paper "Read-Only Execution for Dynamic Languages" is available online: abstract,
PDF
- 2010-07-02 The Paper "Empowering Collections with Swarm Behavior" is available on arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0159
- 2010-06-29 The Paper "Modeling Features at Runtime" has been accepted at MODELS 2010.
- 2010-06-09 Ecole des Mines de Douai together with RMOD are looking for a PhD Student: more info
2010-06-04 We are looking for a full time engineer for Pharo: more info
- 2010-03-28 INRIA has a student internship program, more info
- 2010-03-26 I was selected to be on the Editorial Board of Annals of Improbable Research :-) PDF (page 19)
- 2010-03-22 The Paper "Read-Only Execution for Dynamic Languages" has been accepted at TOOLS 2010.
- 2010-03-15 The Paper "Language Boxes. Bending the Host Language with Modular Language Changes" is finally available:
Abstract, PDF.
- 2010-02-17 We have two PhD and two Postdoc positions at RMoD.
- PhD: Reflection and Security in Dynamic Languages More.
- PhD: Software re-modularization More.
- Postdoc: Reflection and Scoping in Dynamic Languages More.
- Postdoc: Designing a pure trait-based language More.
- 2009-11-28 The Slides form the JM2L 2009 talk are now online: Slides(PDF),Slides(slideshare)
- 2009-11-24 Pharo has now a twitter account: @pharoproject
- 2009-11-19 I will give a talk about Pharo at JM2L 2009 on 28 November in Sophia Antipolis, France.
- 2009-11-10 Our book Squeak by Example can now be ordered via amazon.com
- 2009-10-21 Two papers from IWST09 are now available online:
- Gwenael Casaccio, Damien Pollet, Marcus Denker and Stephane Ducasse, Object Spaces for Safe Image Surgery, PDF
- Stephane Ducasse, Marcus Denker and Adrian Lienhard, Evolving a Reflective Language: Lessons Learned from Implementing Traits, PDF
- 2009-10-19 Pharo by Example is now available: Abstract,
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