Yearbook · all 38 papers

pldb yearbook

POPL Class of '82

38 graduates · cited 564× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Principal Type-Schemes for Functional Programs

cited 264× within PLDB · Damas & Milner

Late Bloomer

Algorithmic Program Diagnosis

half of its 5 citations came 26+ years after it graduated · Shapiro

Teacher's Pet

A Flexible Approach to Interprocedural Data Flow Analysis and Programs with Recursive Data Structures

cites 5 other POPL papers · Jones & Muchnick

Biggest Group Project

Semantics and Correctness of a Query Language Translation

5 authors · Gansner et al.

Class Clown

Building Friendly Parsers

shortest title in the class: 25 characters · Jalili & Gallier

Prom Couple

A Semantics-Directed Compiler Generator & Semantics-Directed Machine Architecture

cited together by 6 papers · Paulson; Wand

Ghosted

18% of the class (7 of 38)

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

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

‹ Class of '81 (1981) Class of '83 (1983) ›

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.