Languages and security: a short reading list

Courtesy Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Tue, 03/10/2009 - 18:45

Ivan Krstić, former director of One Laptop per Child and all around computer security guru, has a few humorous thoughts on the current intersection between security and programming language design in Languages and security: a short reading list .

If I had to grossly overgeneralize, I’d say people looking at language security fall in roughly three schools of thought:

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The "My name is Correctness, king of kings" people say that security problems are merely one manifestation...


 

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