Chair: Gabor Karsai This panel will discuss crucial questions about the state and future of Generative Programming. Panelists include: D. Batory, K. Czarnecki, J. Gray, D. Schmidt, and W. Taha, all leading researchers in and contributors to the field of the GP. The tentative topics for discussion include: * What good is generative programming for anyway? * How do we teach GP? * What are standard challenge problems ("benchmarks") for GP? * How do we evaluate GP approaches? * What are the current and future directions in GP? The panelists will present a short position statement on these topics, followed by open discussion involving the audience. -------+++ Position Statements These are the slides that the panelists used to present there position statements. * [[%ATTACHURL%/Gabor-Karsai.ppt][Opening by Gabor Karsai]] * [[%ATTACHURL%/Don-Batory.ppt][Don Batory]] * [[%ATTACHURL%/Jeff-Gray.pdf][Jeff Gray]] * [[%ATTACHURL%/Doug-Schmidt.ppt][Doug Schmidt]] * [[%ATTACHURL%/Krzysztof-Czarnecki.pdf][Krzysztof Czarnecki]] * [[%ATTACHURL%/Walid-Taha.pdf][Walid-Taha]]