There were implementations of C in Lisp. So C shares that formal logic
basis, or that it was discovered?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Tim Daly <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm making progress on proving Axiom correct both at the Spad level and
> the Lisp level. One interesting talk by Phillip Wadler on "Propositions as
> Types", a very entertaining talk, is here:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZtGU
>
> He makes the interesting point late in the talk that some languages are
> "discovered" based on fundamental logic principles (e.g.Lisp) and others
> are "invented" with no formal basis (e.g. C). As he says, "you can tell
> whether your language is discovered or invented".
>
> The point is that Lisp has a formal logic basis and, as Spad is really
> just a domain specific language implemented in Lisp then Spad shares
> the formal logic basis.
>
>
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