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Enclosure: Language-Based Restriction of Untrusted Libraries

James Richard Larus, Mathias Josef Payer, Edouard Bugnion, Evangelos Marios Kogias, Adrien Ghosn

Programming languages and systems have failed to address the security implications of the increasingly frequent use of public libraries to construct modern software. Most languages provide tools and online repositories to publish, import, and use libraries ...

2021

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Metaprograms are programs that manipulate (generate, analyze and evaluate) other programs. These tasks are greatly facilitated by quasiquotation, a technique to construct and deconstruct program fragments using quoted code templates expressed in the syntax ...

2018

Foundations of Implicit Function Types

Martin Odersky, Fengyun Liu, Olivier Eric Paul Blanvillain

Implicit parameters are used pervasively in Scala and are also present in a number of other programming and theorem proving languages. This paper describes a generalization of implicit parameters as they are currently found in Scala to implicit function ty ...

2017

Program Analysis and Compilation Techniques for Speeding up Transactional Database Workloads

Mohammad Dashti Rahmat Abadi

There is a trend towards increased specialization of data management software for performance reasons. The improved performance not only leads to a more efficient usage of the underlying hardware and cuts the operation costs of the system, but also is a ga ...

EPFL2017

Parser Macros for Scala

Eugene Burmako, Martin Nicolas Duhem

Parser macros are a new kind of macros that allow developers to create new language constructs and to define their own syntax for using them. In this report, we present why parser macros are useful and the kind of problems that they help to solve. We will ...

2015

Search Techniques for Code Generation

Tihomir Gvero

This dissertation explores techniques that synthesize and generate program fragments and test inputs. The main goal of these techniques is to improve and support automation in program synthesis and test input generation. This is important because performin ...

EPFL2015

Synthesizing Java Expressions from Free-Form Queries

Viktor Kuncak, Tihomir Gvero

We present a new code assistance tool for integrated development environments. Our system accepts as input free-form queries containing a mixture of English and Java, and produces Java code expressions that take the query into account and respect syntax, t ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

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Scala-Virtualized extends the Scala language to better support hosting embedded DSLs. Scala is an expressive language that provides a flexible syntax, type-level computation using implicits, and other features that facilitate the development of em- bedded ...

Springer Verlag2013

Constraints as Control

Viktor Kuncak, Philippe Paul Henri Suter

We present an extension of Scala that supports constraint programming over bounded and unbounded domains. The resulting language, Kaplan, provides the benefits of constraint programming while preserving the existing features of Scala. Kaplan integrates con ...

2012

Constraints as Control

Viktor Kuncak, Philippe Paul Henri Suter

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