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Psamathe: A DSL with Flows for Safe Blockchain Assets
Reed Oei, Michael Coblenz, Jonathan Aldrich
Blockchains host smart contracts for crowdfunding, tokens, and many other purposes. Vulnerabilities in contracts are often discovered, leading to the loss of large quantities of mo…
User-Centered Programming Language Design: A Course-Based Case Study
Michael Coblenz, Ariel Davis, Megan Hofmann +7
Recently, user-centered methods have been proposed to improve the design of programming languages. In order to explore what benefits these methods might have for novice programming…
Can Advanced Type Systems Be Usable? An Empirical Study of Ownership, Assets, and Typestate in Obsidian
Michael Coblenz, Jonathan Aldrich, Joshua Sunshine +1
Some blockchain programs (smart contracts) have included serious security vulnerabilities. Obsidian is a new typestate-oriented programming language that uses a strong type system…