Re: [Haskell-cafe] agda v. haskell

2007-09-29 Thread Nils Anders Danielsson
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Jeff Polakow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agda is essentially an implementation of a type checker for Martin-Lof type theory (i.e. dependent types). It is designed to be used as a proof assistant. Well, the language aims to become a practical programming language. Ulf's

[Haskell-cafe] agda v. haskell

2007-09-28 Thread brad clawsie
dons has been posting some links regarding agda on reddit. fairly interesting, a quick glance and you think you are reading haskell code. does anyone have any insights on the major differences in these languages? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] agda v. haskell

2007-09-28 Thread Dan Doel
On Friday 28 September 2007, brad clawsie wrote: dons has been posting some links regarding agda on reddit. fairly interesting, a quick glance and you think you are reading haskell code. does anyone have any insights on the major differences in these languages? I'm not too familiar with

Re: [Haskell-cafe] agda v. haskell

2007-09-28 Thread Jeff Polakow
Hello, Agda is essentially an implementation of a type checker for Martin-Lof type theory (i.e. dependent types). It is designed to be used as a proof assistant. Roughly speaking propositions are represented as types and a proof of a proposition is a well-typed, total and terminating