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pldi-writing-style
Use when revising a PLDI draft for the venue's voice — design insight before tool name, mechanisms instead of adjectives, a running example that carries the semantics, honest limitation statements, and prose that fits the single-column acmsmall journal format without padding toward the page cap.
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# PLDI Writing Style
A PLDI paper is an engineering argument written for people who will try to break
it. The style that survives has three habits: it states the *hard case* before
the solution, it explains *mechanisms* rather than accumulating adjectives, and
it scopes every claim to exactly what the evaluation shows. Since the PACMPL
switch, the published object is a journal article in single-column `acmsmall` —
roomier lines than the old two-column look, but the same conference-grade cap on
text pages, so the format rewards clarity, not length.
## The first-page contract
By the end of page one a reviewer should be able to answer four questions:
