A multiple-language, same program language - said to address code-injection attacks DoingStuff.DonaldNoyes.20140826
Where?
- CarnegieMellonUniversity
- Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have designed a way to safely use multiple programming languages within the same program, enabling programmers to use the language most appropriate for each function while guarding against code injection attacks — one of the most severe security threats in Web applications today.
- A research group led by JonathanAldrich, associate professor in the InstituteForSoftwareResearch (ISR), is developing a programming language called Wyvern that makes it possible to construct programs using a variety of targeted, domain-specific languages, such as SQL for querying databases or HTML for constructing Web pages, as sublanguages, rather than writing the entire program using a general purpose language.