[Haskell-cafe] Proving correctness

Pavel Perikov perikov at gmail.com
Mon Feb 14 21:15:36 CET 2011


> Who claimed that Haskell is a proof assistant?

no one sanely will :) Haskell is a beautiful and practical (!) programming language with great infrastructure and community. Sadly,  proving inside haskell is hard :) And it doesn't bring me coffee in the morning too (well, it mostly does)

pavel.

On 14.02.2011, at 23:08, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:

> On 11-02-14 03:03 PM, Pavel Perikov wrote:
>> Sorely, Haskell can't prove logic with it. No predicates on values, guarantee that proof is not _|_. Haskell makes bug free software affordable, that's true. But it's not a proof assistant.
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