"Propositions as Types" by Philip Wadler
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Under Curry–Howard, propositions correspond to types and proofs to programs. Wadler shows the parallel between simplifying proofs and evaluating terms.
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need a formal definition of algorithm so you can show that no algorithm is going to workproofs in the logic correspond to terms programs in the programming languageif you've typed it and you're not using What's called the fixo operator that is unlimited General recursionlinear Logic on the left seems to correspond to things called session Typesan algorithm is a sequence of instructions followed by a computerpropositions in logic correspond to types in a programming language