On 5/23/09, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Robert Raschke <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> ...
>> Haskell is mostly (in my eyes) an exercise in Type Theory. Influenced by
>> the
>> whole "theorems as types, proofs as programs" thing. There's some
>> mathematician attached to that idea, whose name eludes me just now....
>
> Alonzo Church? If not restrictive on "mathematician" per se, perhaps
> Robin Milner or Philip Wadler?

I think I mean Martin-Löf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Martin-L%C3%B6f).

Robby
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