Yearbook · all 25 papers

pldb yearbook

ICFP Class of '04

25 graduates · cited 155× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed & Valedictorian

Scrap more boilerplate: reflection, zips, and generalised casts

cited 22× within PLDB; Most Influential ICFP Paper (awarded 2014) · Lämmel & Jones

Late Bloomer

Monadic regions

half of its 10 citations came 18+ years after it graduated · Fluet & Morrisett

Teacher's Pet

Regular expression patterns

cites 3 other ICFP papers · Broberg et al.

Biggest Group Project

Types for path correctness of XML queries

4 authors · Colazzo et al.

Class Clown

Generics for the masses

“for the masses” · Hinze

Prom Couple

Generics for the masses & Scrap more boilerplate: reflection, zips, and…

cited together by 5 papers · Hinze; Lämmel & Jones

Ghosted

16% of the class (4 of 25)

never cited within PLDB. No names. We're not monsters.

pldb.kirancodes.me/fun/yearbook · within PLDB

‹ Class of '03 (2003) Class of '05 (2005) ›

Citations are between papers within PLDB, one per pair, newer versions of the same paper excluded. Late Bloomer needs 5+ citations; Ghosted is hidden for the last three classes, who are still being read. Older classes have thinner citation data.