PLDI 2016

The 37th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, PLDI, is the premier forum for all areas of programming language research, including the design, implementation, theory, and efficient use of languages. PLDI’s emphases include innovative and creative approaches to compile-time and runtime technology, novel language designs and features, and results from implementations. The Practices of PLDI is available here.

Highlights:

• Distinguished Paper Awards:
  • Into the depths of C: elaborating the de facto standards
  • Transactional data structure libraries
  • Types from data: making structured data first-class citizens in F#
  • Assessing the limits of program-specific garbage collection performance
• Distinguished Artifact Award:
  • Rehearsal: a configuration verification tool for puppet

Quick/Easy Access and Info:

• The PLDI’16 technical papers are available via 1-click download from the ACM Digital Library and for free via OpenTOC.

• Final conference schedule is available here (one page version).
• Technical Program
• Daily Conference Program.
• Conference Venue.

Invited Speakers

Programming Languages and Technical Disruption

Benjamin Zorn

Programming a Warehouse-scale Computer

Luiz André Barroso