Yearbook · all 27 papers

pldb yearbook

POPL Class of '79

27 graduates · cited 727× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Systematic Design of Program Analysis Frameworks

cited 485× within PLDB · Cousot & Cousot

Late Bloomer

Automatic Data Structure Selection in SETL

half of its 11 citations came 31+ years after it graduated · Schonberg et al.

Teacher's Pet

Automatic Generation of Near-Optimal Translators for Noncircular Attribute Grammars

cites 3 other POPL papers · Cohen & Harry

Class Clown

Process Logic

shortest title in the class: 13 characters · Pratt

Prom Couple

Systematic Design of Program Analysis Frameworks & Flow Analysis and Optimization of Lisp-Like…

cited together by 12 papers · Cousot & Cousot; Jones & Muchnick

Ghosted

19% of the class (5 of 27)

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.