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0 pointshappyslobro9y ago0 comments

This looks like an ideal use case for a Haskel based DSL. We need good static analysis capabilities, and we have to carefully manage side effects.

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chc9y ago

I'm not sure Haskell's type system is sophisticated enough to be relied on to prevent the kinds of problems The DAO ran into. As I understand it, one of the bugs boils down to recursive calls between two side-effecting functions, which seems like it would probably be just as possible in a parallel-universe Ethereum based on Haskell.

splintercell9y ago

Check ou this paper

http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/234939/...

happyslobroOP9y ago

Hmm, so the DSL needs to enforce some kind of contract and limit scheme, like that Ada dialect that the aerospace guys occasionally bring up. I bet they have decades of research that the next DAO project devs should familiarise themselves with.

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