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Influencing mainstream software—Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets
| Andy Gordon et Simon Peyton Jones
Spreadsheets are the world’s most widely used programming language, by several orders of magnitude. We asked ourselves whether it would be possible to apply programming language research ideas to make spreadsheets a better programming language? If we could, that would…
Project Everest: Reaching greater heights in internet communication security
Project Everest is a multiyear collaborative effort focused on building a verified, secure communications stack designed to improve the security of HTTPS, a key internet safeguard. This post, about the verification tools and techniques the Everest team is using and…
Scaling the Everest of software security with Dr. Jonathan Protzenko
Episode 58, January 9, 2019 - Dr. Protzenko talks about what’s wrong with software (and why it’s vitally important to get it right), explains why there are so many programming languages (and tells us about a few he’s been working…