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I asked Claude to go through all paper names and estimate how many have code vs how many are proofs:

“Based on my analysis, I estimate: - ~35-40 papers (roughly 35%) likely have significant accompanying code - ~55-60 papers (roughly 65%) are primarily theoretical/mathematical proofs “

I suspect even the remaining 35% doesn’t have much to do with programming languages, and I don’t think these stats change much for other conferences.




> I don’t think these stats change much for other conferences.

I'd severely doubt that: there is a large difference in focus on theory vs practice between conferences. POPL really is one of the more theoretical conferences. At a conference like ECOOP, you're unlikely to see many proofs (I'd guess at most 20% of papers, based on personal experience).


I did the same thing for ECOOP 2024: https://2024.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2024-papers#program

Claude estimates 10 papers related programming languages and its features and 27 related to theory, verification etc.




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