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What Functional Programmers Can Learn from Sequent Calculus - Stanley - Jul 9, 2025

What Functional Programmers Can Learn from Sequent Calculus


This article highlights five key insights from the 𝜆𝜇𝜇˜-calculus, particularly the treatment of evaluation contexts as first-class and the restored symmetry between data and codata in sequent calculus. These features simplify reasoning and implementation in functional languages by clarifying evaluation order and reducing conceptual asymmetries in type systems.


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