Terminating Computation First?

01/08/2025 11 min Temporada 6 Episodio 10
Terminating Computation First?

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, I discuss an intriguing idea proposed by Victor Taelin, to base a logically sound type theory on an untyped but terminating language, upon which one may then erect as exotic a type system as one wishes.  By enforcing termination already for the untyped language, we no longer have to make the type system do the heavy work of enforcing termination.