Logic Column 7 Report on POPL 199 9 Jon G . Riecke Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologie s 700 Mountain Avenu e Murray Hill, NJ 0797 4 recke@bell-labs .co m The Twenty-Sixth SIGPLAN-SIGACT Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) conference was held on January 20-22, 1999 . Over 200 participants, an increase over last year's attendance , met in San Antonio, Texas . Three smaller conferences or workshops were also scheduled aroun d the conference . Andrew Appel of Princeton served as general chair, with the program chosen by a committee led by Alex Aiken of Berkeley . Rather than give a detailed discussion of the conference , I will focus on some of the highlights . Each day began with an invited talk . Fritz Henglein, of the University of Copenhagen, began th e conference with an invited talk on a tool, developed with Peter Eidorff, Christian IVlossin, Hennin g Niss, Morten Heine Sorensen, and Mads Tofte, for the analysis of COBOL programs . The group has built a commercial product (aptly named AnnoDomini l ) that uses type theory and program analysis techniques to track date-related data . This represents a quite successful application o f new ideas
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