Making Formality Work For Us

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  • Roland Backhouse
چکیده

Formal reasoning is notoriously long and arduous; in order to use it to reason eeectively in the construction of programs it is, therefore, paramount that we design our notations to be both clear and economical. Taking examples from AI, from imperative programming, from the use of the Bird-Meertens formalism and from category theory we demonstrate how the right choice of what to denote and how it is denoted can make signiicant improvements to formal calculations. Brief mention is also made of the connection between economical notation and properties of type.

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تاریخ انتشار 1989