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Curry-Howard correspondence: a standalone construct

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the correspondence under which propositions are types, proofs are programs and proof simplification is program evaluation.

In programming languages, Curry-Howard correspondence refers to the correspondence under which propositions are types, proofs are programs and proof simplification is program evaluation. This meaning comes from Wadler (2015) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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correspondence4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs program2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs proof2 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Wadler, P. (2015). Propositions as types. Communications of the ACM, 58(12), 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1145/2699407

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