title: European Symposium on Programming
text: # European Symposium on Programming
  
  The European Symposium on Programming (ESOP) is an annual conference devoted to fundamental issues in the specification, design, analysis, and implementation of programming languages and systems.
  
  * According to CORE Ranking, ESOP has rank A (i.e. "excellent conference, and highly respected in a discipline area", top 14%).
  * According to Google Scholar Metrics (as of 20 July 2019), ESOP has H5-index 26 and H5-median 38.
  
  Initially a biannual conference, ESOP moved in 1998 into an annual schedule and became one of the founding conferences of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS).
  
  