The annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) is a top academic conference in the field of computer science, with focus on fundamental principles in the design, definition, analysis, and implementation of programming languages, programming systems, and programming interfaces. The venue is jointly sponsored by the two Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups: SIGPLAN and SIGACT.
History of the Conference
Affiliated events
- Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming (DAMP)
- Foundations and Developments of Object-Oriented Languages (FOOL/WOOD)
- Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation (PEPM)
- Practical Applications of Declarative Languages (PADL)
- Programming Language Technologies for XML (PLAN-X)
- Types in Language Design and Implementation (TLDI)
- Verification, Model Checking and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI)