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Pony<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.infoq.com/presentations/pony|title=InfoQ: Using Pony for Fintech}}</ref> is an [[Actor model|actor]] based language designed by Sylvan Clebsch, with the initial implementation starting in 2012<ref name="pony-initial-commit>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/commit/0192983a0f73d2d490cc901b952534b2d27915dd|title=initial git commit for ponyc}}</ref>. One of the languages unique features is to make it a [[Race condition|race-free]] programming language via the use of reference capabilities<ref>{{cite web | url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2824816 |title=Deny capabilities for safe, fast actors |authors=Sylvan Clebsch, Sophia Drossopoulou, Sebastian Blessing, Andy McNeil |date=2015-10-26}}</ref> by the compiler<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc|title=github ponyc repository}}</ref> in order to enforce correct access to program state within the context of the natural high [[Concurrency_(computer_science)|concurrency]] supported by the [[Actor model|actor model]].

==References==