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Top N Papers 2005

2005 is nearly over, and as everyone knows, December is the time for compiling hugely subjective Top 5 (10, 20, 100) lists for everything under the sun. I think it would be fun to see everybody's favorite papers... Here's mine, totally off the top of my head (I'm sure I'm forgetting something essential):

(Don't worry about trying to post the "best" papers in some objective sense, just whatever excited you... Show me what I missed this year!)

By Matt Hellige at 2005-12-13 06:32 | Fun | other blogs | 18414 reads

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See CiteSeer's Statistics pages (for example, Most Cited Documents) and Benjamin Pierce's compilation of Great Works in Programming Languages.

By Frank Atanassow at Tue, 2005-12-13 10:50 | login or register to post comments

2005?

There's nothing in Benjamin Pierce's compilation from 2005.

By Sjoerd Visscher at Tue, 2005-12-13 14:04 | login or register to post comments

My mistake

Ah, right. I interpreted this as a request for (lists of papers) written as of 2005, not for lists of (papers written in 2005).

By Frank Atanassow at Tue, 2005-12-13 16:26 | login or register to post comments

A Monadic Framework for Subcontinuations

I would add A Monadic Framework for Subcontinuations to the list, as well as Oleg's ZipperFS talk. IMHO, Oleg's "generic zipper" is the biggest news of 2005.

By Paul Snively at Tue, 2005-12-13 14:03 | login or register to post comments

Why Dependent Types Matter

I'd like to mention Why Dependent Types Matter

By Enrique Vetere at Tue, 2005-12-13 18:04 | login or register to post comments

PLDI usually has good papers.

PLDI usually has good papers. The one I read that really impressed me was this:

Garbage Collection Without Paging.
Matthew Hertz, Yi Feng and Emery D. Berger

OK, so it's only vaguely related to functional programming. I really liked it anyway.

By Thomas Lindgren at Tue, 2005-12-13 19:15 | login or register to post comments

Danvy

"OK, so it's only vaguely related to functional programming. I really liked it anyway."

? There is no implicit or explicit requirement for it to be even vaguely related to FP.

Anyways...

I haven't been able to read too many CS papers of late and I don't think I've read any (maybe one...) of the following, but it's a safe bet that there are good papers here.

By Derek Elkins at Tue, 2005-12-13 19:50 | login or register to post comments

GC Without Paging

I liked that paper as well.

I also enjoyed this one from the same proceedings:

Checking Type Safety of Foreign Function Calls
Michael Furr and Jeffrey Foster

By n8gray at Fri, 2005-12-16 02:16 | login or register to post comments

Forgot one...

A Core Calculus of Metaclasses - Sam Tobin-Hochstadt and Eric Allen

(I was reminded of it in another thread.)

By Matt Hellige at Tue, 2006-01-03 20:33 | login or register to post comments