This volume presents the proceedings of a conference on programming and programming languages. It contains original research contributions addressing fundamental issues and important developments in the design, specification and implementation of programming languages and systems. Topics - Program specification, methodology, tools, environments; - Programming language types, data abstraction, parallelism, real-time; - Language implementation compilers, interpreters, abstract machine design, optimization; - Programs as data abstract interpretation, program transformation, partial evaluation; - Programming imperative, functional, predicative, object-oriented.