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Purpose
TOPLAS plans to devote one issue per year to a selection of the best papers culled from the year's programming language conferences. SIGPLAN sponsors a number of first-rate conferences that cover a wide range of topics such as: Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), Object-oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA), and Architecture Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Few people have the time or the energy to follow all these conferences closely, so we believe there is a need for a forum that publishes extended versions of the best papers published each year in our field. TOPLAS will be this forum. We believe this initiative will not only recognize outstanding research each year, but it will also bring our community closer since each of us will be better informed about the best research results in those SIGPLAN conferences that we do not follow closely.