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inactiveTopic 20 Years of PLDI - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
started 3/30/2002; 1:18:51 AM - last post 4/2/2002; 1:45:07 AM
Ehud Lamm - 20 Years of PLDI - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS  blueArrow
3/30/2002; 1:18:51 AM (reads: 2138, responses: 3)
20 Years of PLDI - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
PLDI and its predecessor (Symposium on Compiler Construction) are a forum where researchers have presented original work on practical issues in the design, development, implementation, and use of programming languages. SIGPLAN is embarking on a project to compile the most influential papers published in PLDI from 1979 through 1999 into a special SIGPLAN proceedings which will include 35 to 45 papers, and invited retrospectives from the authors.

Great idea!

Notice that the nomination deadline is Friday, April 5, 2002, 5:00 pm EST. Get busy.

And oh, when you nominate a paper - please mention it here too.


Posted to history by Ehud Lamm on 3/30/02; 1:19:39 AM

Patrick Logan - Re: 20 Years of PLDI - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS  blueArrow
3/30/2002; 8:06:08 AM (reads: 1053, responses: 1)
I nominated...

D. Kranz, R. Kelsey, J. Rees, P. Hudak, J. Philbin, and N. Adams. ORBIT: An optimizing compiler for Scheme. SIGPLAN Notices, 21(7):219--233, July 1986. Proc. Sigplan '86 Symp. on Compiler Construction.

Ehud Lamm - Re: 20 Years of PLDI - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS  blueArrow
3/30/2002; 8:09:54 AM (reads: 1116, responses: 0)
Along the smae line, I was thking about nominating The Essence of Compiling with Continuations.

Ehud Lamm - Re: 20 Years of PLDI - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS  blueArrow
4/2/2002; 1:45:07 AM (reads: 1021, responses: 0)
Some more papers that I like:

  1. 1992 A retargetable debugger. Norman Ramsey, David R. Hanson
  2. 1993 The essence of compiling with continuations. Cormac Flanagan, Amr Sabry, Bruce F. Duba, Matthias Felleisen
  3. 1997 Simple translation of goal-directed evaluation. Todd A. Proebsting
  4. 1998 Proper tail recursion and space efficiency. William D. Clinger
  5. 1999 A semantics for imprecise exceptions. Simon Peyton Jones, Alastair Reid, Fergus Henderson, Tony Hoare, Simon Marlow
  6. 2000 Design and implementation of generics for the .NET Common language runtime. Andrew Kennedy, Don Syme