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Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages

Philip Wadler · InfoQ · 46 HN points · 0 HN comments
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Philip Wadler discusses second-order quantification, from its inception in the symbolic logic of Frege through to the generic features introduced in Java 5, touching on aspects of faith and evolution.
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Aug 08, 2012 · 46 points, 4 comments · submitted by primodemus
sordina
I wish I could get a foothold on natural-deduction. I feel that it would be great to have an intuitive understanding, but at the moment all I can see is symbolic manipulation.
currywurst
I'm a beginner in logic, but I understand that the beauty of a deductive system is that you can reduce a proof to just symbol manipulation. Logic is "establishing truth by calculation" !

You can assume that given so-and-so deduction rules, whatever I can derive from a set of axioms by applying them "makes sense" .. pretty cool !

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sambeau
I am one of the lucky people to have been taught Functional Programming by Philip Wadler back in the 1990s. He's a brilliant, funny lecturer. This quirky talk is very similar in style to some of the lectures he gave me in 1st year.
agumonkey
Did he dress the same too ? That's some epic ending
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