I've been compiling a list of useful resources in a gist [1] for a while. 
It might give some background into the diverse areas of development and 
research. 

[1] https://gist.github.com/halorgium/5623531

On Jul 24, 2013, at 7:00 AM, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:

> Putting security into languages has been a thing in PL for some time. Not 
> sure why more people don't know about it.
> 
> Another fun thing is the TouchDevelop platform from MSR. They can do static 
> information flow tracking in user generated apps to put upfront warnings 
> about security and privacy concerns for arbitrary TouchDevelop programs (1). 
> I saw a demo at POPL12, it was pretty cool. 
> 
> 1: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=152507
> 
> On Jul 23, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Will Sargent <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> So I was listening to a random podcast:
>> 
>> http://scalatypes.com/episode-20-interview-with-benjamin-pierce
>> 
>> and apparently there are security oriented languages:
>> 
>> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/sol/
>> 
>> that have fancy type checkers to do more to ensure secure distributed 
>> programming:
>> 
>> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/fstar/
>> 
>> and it looks fascinating.
>> 
>> Also reading up on object capability model and the Actor model -- I'm 
>> surprised it's not more popular.
>> 
>> Will.
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