Congratulations to Ohad Krammer,
@reifyreflect and Nicolas Oury for their Most Influential Paper of ICFP2013 award presented at
#ICFP2023 for their Handlers in Action paper which inspired and kicked off a lot of work on effects by many people. Sam made a heartfelt speech about how kind and supportive the programming languages research community is, with a specific reference to a personal tragedy that occurred while he was in Boston for the 2013 ICFP. I concur, having experienced several research communities I know that not all of them are pleasant places to be, but through decades of PL I have met colleagues that have become friends, and enjoyed a community that has become a home. [I know it is not perfect. But it is still pretty bloody good.]