All tweets verbatim from PL or PL-adjacent research papers • main: @lindsey • eldritch aesthetic
ALT Even soundness became expendable to some extent. This sounds horrific, but
ALT "tempting to use the same code for computing the derivative. From the perspective of parsing, this has two chief drawbacks: 1. It doesn't work."
ALT "different worlds can be viewed as different machines. Unfortunately, this led to difficulties in shipping"
ALT "due to its lavish use of squiggly notation,"
ALT "We choose to use a second, slightly more convoluted solution,"
ALT "these models bear roughly the same relationship to reality as, for example, the postulate of frictionless surfaces does to reality in physics."
ALT "sites i \in TI \subseteq I that have become *trusted* forever and *immortal*, so they can no longer be suspected"
ALT "Imagine a functional programmer gets stranded on a desert island on their way to ICFP’04. There, after much thought,"
ALT "quickly degenerate into a nightmare of pointer manipulation"
ALT 7. Performance and complexity The implementation is brief. The code is pure. The theory is elegant. So, how does this perform in practice? In brief, it is awful.
ALT text from a paper's abstract reading "(even in the guise of the abhorred goto)."
ALT "Demonstrations of interactive theorem provers necessarily involve deception."
ALT An inference rule with "stupid warning" as one of the premises.
ALT "'real code' that performs actual file system operations"
ALT "6.5 Generating Disks of Death"
ALT "are the theorems that we prove actually true? And if they are, how"
ALT "it is straightforward to support C/C 11's non-atomics, with 'catch-fire' semantics"
ALT "Program verification is unusable."
ALT "real-world, 'bug-free' distributed systems"