Tag: University of Birmingham

  • Discussing “On Intuitionistic Diamonds (and Lack Thereof)”

    Discussing “On Intuitionistic Diamonds (and Lack Thereof)”

    I choose papers for this blog by looking at the most cited papers in my Google Scholar recommendations of recent papers. This week, my algorithm has read my mind by recommending a fairly new paper that was already at the top of my list of papers to read. Its topic, as with a few papers…

  • Discussing “Computational Types from a Logical Perspective”

    Discussing “Computational Types from a Logical Perspective”

    This is a sequel to a paper by Moggi that I discussed some time ago. That paper discussed side effects, which are, roughly speaking, anything interesting that a program does other than map inputs deterministically to outputs, such as failure to terminate with a value, taking in user input, or producing output before the computation…

  • Discussing “Domain Theory”

    Discussing “Domain Theory”

    Domains are certain forms of ordered sets used to address problems in the denotational semantics (mathematical interpretation) of programming languages. The area was invented by Dana Scott in a series of papers starting in 1969, building on earlier work by many others that used lattices. This book (which admittedly, I did not have time to…