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by awinter-py 3702 days ago
totally right about the parallel with SQL.

This paper is from a few years ago about verifying programs that span multiple languages / runtimes:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amal/papers/verifcomp.pdf

We need to get these concepts into mainstream tools. SQL certainly seems to be the low-hanging fruit (simple, straightfoward typing, widely used and understood, frequent errors lead to security problems).