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Functional programming in communications security

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Lilja, Timo
Abstract	At SSH Communications Security, we've employed functional programming for a long time in some of our projects. Over the years, we've shipped a number of products written mostly in Scheme, and are about to ship some software which is in part written in Standard ML. We have also written several pieces of software for internal use in Haskell, Standard ML, Scheme, and probably others as well. In this talk, I will describe some useful insights into how these languages have worked for us in developing security software. We had some successes: we've been able to build and ship fairly large software systems rather quickly and with good confidence in certain aspects of their security. We've also experienced some failures. Using functional programming doesn't protect against bad design. Implementations of functional languages are sometimes slow. The user base of many languages is small, and there aren't a whole lot of programmers on the market who can program well in, for example, Scheme. Over the past few years, we've also seen some of the social phenomena related to functional programming: how people feel about it, why they believe it works/doesn't work, and why they are (not) interested in doing it.
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File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1145/1362702.1362714
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2007-10-04
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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