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As far as I am aware this doesn’t relate to much work done by Dijkstra. This is really the Type Theoretic computer science program. It starts at Church and prog
by throwaway17_17 3y ago
As far as I am aware this doesn’t relate to much work done by Dijkstra. This is really the Type Theoretic computer science program. It starts at Church and progresses through Curry (inspired by Schoenfinkel), then hits the ‘modern’ academic lineage splitting in many directions. On the computer science side in America Constable and his doctoral students (Robert Harper included), Dana Scott, Strachey, Reynolds, the current CMU proof theory/type theory professors, and in Europe you have the French school with Coquand, Huet, etc from INRIA and the English lineage from Milner.
Obviously the above is a very truncated list and misses out on a huge chunk of formative thinkers, and doesn’t get to the cutting edge modern developments. Additionally, I’m leaving out the Math centric developments and people, like Mike Shulman, Dan Licata, etc.