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Use when judging whether a project is OOPSLA-shaped — a PL contribution whose evidence spans design, implementation, formalism, or empirical study — and routing within the SIGPLAN family from OOPSLA's seat: POPL for theory-first, PLDI for implementation-performance, ICFP for functional, Onward! for vision, ECOOP, or SE venues.

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# OOPSLA Topic Selection

OOPSLA is the broadest seat at the SIGPLAN table: its published scope covers
programming languages "from design to implementation and from mathematical
formalisms to empirical studies," and its verified exemplars include a
benchmark suite, a measurement-methodology critique, a corpus/survey study,
a soundness counterexample, a language experience report, and a formalized
runtime mechanism (`resources/exemplars/library.md`). The routing question
is therefore rarely "is this PL?" but "is OOPSLA's *breadth* the asset, or
would a narrower sibling reward this paper's center of mass more?"

## The center-of-mass test

State the one sentence a reviewer would repeat to the committee. Route on
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