PL Grand Challenges

Courtesy Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Wed, 01/28/2009 - 13:07

The notes from a panel held at POPL 2009 on this topic are available here.
The panelists were Simon Peyton Jones, Kathryn McKinley, Xavier Leroy, Martin Rinard and Greg Morrisett.

Among the topics raised: Effects, Program verification, Parallelism, Visualization tools for understanding behavior of parallel programs, Secure software, High assurance.

Not surprisingly all these topics have been discussed here repeatedly in recent years...


 

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