barry-jay-personal / tree-calculus

Proofs in Coq for the book Reflective Programs in Tree Calculus
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A Beautiful and Elegant Calculus #4

Closed zpyatt closed 2 years ago

zpyatt commented 2 years ago

Congratulations, and thank you for this elegant calculus. W.R.T. "who cares about programs in your SF-calculus?" - I am, and I'd think anyone who appreciates beauty and cares about computation would be as well. I've followed your work since I discovered "Programs as Data Structures", frequently checking for new calculi (you kind of lost me after λSF), tree calculus didn't disappoint, it's so cool/fascinating. I'm working on a C++ implementation (I'm close) so I can play with it, to discover its capabilities/implications.

I was wondering: 1.) Are you interested in comments on the book? If so is this an appropriate forum? 2.) Is this an appropriate forum for discussing / asking questions about tree calculus?

Anyway, keep up the good work! It's greatly appreciated. I think tree calculus may be more beautiful than lambda calculus, which in my mind sets the bar for simplicity and elegance.

barry-jay-personal commented 2 years ago

Hi zpyatt,

Thanks for the compliments! I’m not sure what magazine this is whose “Issue #4” you refer to. Do let me know how your implementation works out. Certainly, all questions and comments are welcome.

Yours, Barry

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On 26 Dec 2021, at 9:56 am, zpyatt @.***> wrote:

 Congratulations, and thank you for this elegant calculus. W.R.T. "who cares about programs in your SF-calculus?" - I am, and I'd think anyone who appreciates beauty and cares about computation would be as well. I've followed your work since I discovered "Programs as Data Structures", frequently checking for new calculi (you kind of lost me after λSF), tree calculus didn't disappoint, it's so cool/fascinating. I'm working on a C++ implementation (I'm close) so I can play with it, to discover its capabilities/implications.

I was wondering: 1.) Are you interested in comments on the book? If so is this an appropriate forum? 2.) Is this an appropriate forum for discussing / asking questions about tree calculus?

Anyway, keep up the good work! It's greatly appreciated. I think tree calculus may be more beautiful than lambda calculus, which in my mind sets the bar for simplicity and elegance.

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zpyatt commented 2 years ago

Barry,

Issue #4 is the "issue" number Github assigned, since I posted this as an "issue" on Github. Is there a better place to comment and discuss? I can close this if you like.

Thanks, /ZRP

barry-jay-personal commented 2 years ago

Oh, understood. Just email will be fine for now. B

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On 26 Dec 2021, at 6:02 pm, zpyatt @.***> wrote:

 Barry,

Issue #4 is the "issue" number Github assigned, since I posted this as an "issue" on Github. Is there a better place to comment and discuss? I can close this if you like.

Thanks, /ZRP

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