Yearbook · all 30 papers

pldb yearbook

POPL Class of '89

30 graduates · cited 851× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

How to Make ad-hoc Polymorphism Less ad-hoc

cited 218× within PLDB · Wadler & Blott

Late Bloomer

Bisimulation Through Probabilistic Testing

half of its 15 citations came 29+ years after it graduated · Larsen & Skou

Teacher's Pet

An Efficient Method of Computing Static Single Assignment Form

cites 5 other POPL papers · Cytron et al.

Biggest Group Project

The Modula-3 Type System

5 authors · Cardelli et al.

Class Clown

Partial Order Programming

second-shortest title in the class: 25 characters · Jr.

Prom Couple

Typechecking Records and Variants in a Natural… & How to Make ad-hoc Polymorphism Less ad-hoc

cited together by 11 papers · Rémy; Wadler & Blott

Ghosted

10% of the class (3 of 30)

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

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

‹ Class of '88 (1988) Class of '90 (1990) ›

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.