Yearbook · all 56 papers

pldb yearbook

OOPSLA Class of '86

56 graduates · cited 634× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Object-Oriented Programming with Flavors

cited 69× within PLDB · Moon

Late Bloomer

A Simple Technique for Handling Multiple Polymorphism

half of its 28 citations came 15+ years after it graduated · Ingalls

Teacher's Pet

Encapsulation and Inheritance in Object-Oriented Programming Languages

cites 3 other OOPSLA papers · Snyder

Biggest Group Project

CommonLoops: Merging Lisp and Object-Oriented Programming

6 authors · Bobrow et al.

Class Clown

Object Identity

shortest title in the class: 15 characters · Khoshafian & Copeland

Prom Couple

CommonLoops: Merging Lisp and Object-Oriented… & Object-Oriented Programming with Flavors

cited together by 21 papers · Bobrow et al.; Moon

Ghosted

20% of the class (11 of 56)

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

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

Class of '87 (1987) ›

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.