Linear Logic – Par Part 2

2 points by hoping1 4 months ago | 5 comments
  • hoping1 4 months ago
    A new guide on linear logic! Much deeper than the usual "imagine a vending machine" guide, though I do mention the connection to that at the end lol. This is great for getting an intuition for substructural logics in academic papers, as well as the notorious multiple-conclusion sequents used in, say, type systems for safe parallelism. The post prior gives the necessary background on sequent calculus, if needed. This series is on much of the most beautiful theory ever, and I hope you enjoy!!
    • yo_yo_yo-yo 4 months ago
      What are your plans for future posts in this series? You’ve done some nice work here. Where were you introduced to this subject? Looking forward to more, especially because your presentation is so clean.
      • hoping1 4 months ago
        I'm glad you liked it! I have one more post planned for this series, on par and using continuations for classical logic proof terms. I have two other posts in the works but they aren't part of this series, which will only have that one more post. Much of what I learned was from blog posts like this one, or at least they got me to the point where I could understand the papers on my own. Blog posts, YouTube, reddit, discord, all helped me a ton. Originally I just wanted to make a cool programming language, but the more research I learned the more my interest shifted to the research, because it's just so unbelievably gorgeous and elegant!
      • Cascais 4 months ago
        Nice work :)