
Tech Talk: Idris, Proofs and Haskell with Edwin Brady
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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Programming Languages Aren't Computable, but You Could Write Packman in Them
Programming languages are incomplete, but can still be used to solve computable problems. Theory provers require programs to be a total which means they need to cover all well typed inputs. But the question is what kind of useful things can you do with this? And i haven't yet found a useful thing by disallowing programms looping forever and not producing any output on the way.
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