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popl-topic-selection

Use when deciding whether a project is POPL-shaped — a principle about programming languages carried by definitions and theorems — or better aimed at PLDI's implementation bar, OOPSLA's breadth, ICFP's paradigm focus, or LICS, CAV, CPP, ESOP, and journal outlets, judged by what the decisive evidence is.

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# POPL Topic Selection

POPL's full name is the routing test: *Principles* of Programming Languages. The
venue's center of gravity is a *general truth about languages* — a semantics, a type
discipline, a program logic, a proof technique — established by definition and
theorem. Both theoretical and experimental papers are welcome under the posted
scope, but an experimental POPL paper still orbits a principle. (Scope wording per
the POPL series pages, read 2026-07-08.)

## Three questions before committing

1. **What sentence do you most want reviewers to believe?** If it starts "we prove"
   or "we give a semantics/logic/type system such that ..." — POPL. If it starts
   "our compiler/analyzer achieves ..." — PLDI. If it starts "developers using our