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Today, I gave a presentation on Traits for PHP in Paris. It was a quite interesting audience, ca. 35 professional PHP developers and all interested in Traits.

My presentation gave an introduction into the motivation and language design of Traits for PHP. Also discussing details like the actual implementation in the Zend Engine.

Afterwards, Frédéric Hardy gave a presentation to demonstrate the use of traits in testing, I believe. Well, the talk was in French after all, which made following for me rather impossible, unfortunately.

So, the overall conclusion is, there are quite a few people interested in using traits in the real world. Thats good, but might result in the paradox that the most influential work I will do for a long time, is bringing the result of a course work to the #4 programming language in the world… *sigh*

On the first day here at the summer school, the organizers gave us the opportunity to present our research ideas to the lecturers and other participants.

I presented my idea on extending the virtual machine models with explicit support for concurrency models. My brief presentation focused on using multiple-language virtual machines to provide support for domain-specific concurrent languages. It basically states the question whether it is possible to use the concepts of locality and encapsulation as a common foundation for a wide range of different models. Since I am at the very beginning of working on this specific idea, there aren’t any answers yet.