Yearbook · all 20 papers

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POPL Class of '76

20 graduates · cited 168× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

A Lazy Evaluator

cited 40× within PLDB · Henderson & Jr.

Late Bloomer

A Methodology for Lisp Program Construction from Examples

half of its 13 citations came 39+ years after it graduated · Summers

Teacher's Pet

Binding Time Optimization in Programming Languages: Some Thoughts Toward the Design of an Ideal Language

cites 3 other POPL papers · Jones & Muchnick

Biggest Group Project

Procedure Referencing Environments in SL5

5 authors · Britton et al.

Class Clown

Goal-Directed Program Transformation

second-shortest title in the class: 36 characters · Wegbreit

Prom Couple

Program Improvement by Source to Source… & Goal-Directed Program Transformation

cited together by 3 papers · Loveman; Wegbreit

Ghosted

25% of the class (5 of 20)

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

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

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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.