I came upon the Curry-Howard Isomorphism relatively late in my programming life, and perhaps this contributes to my being utterly fascinated by it. It implies that for every pro
2-continuation | Sheffer stoke
n-continuation language | Existential graph
Recursion | Mathematical Induction
One thing that is important, but have not yet being investigated is the relationship of 2-continuation (continuations that takes 2 parameters) and Sheffer stroke. In classic logic, Sheffer stroke can form a complete logic system by itself (plus some non-operator concepts). Which means the familiar and
, or
, not
can be implemented using only the Sheffer stoke or nand
.
This is an important fact of its programming type correspondence because it prompts that a single type combinator can be used to form all other types.
The type signature of a 2-continuation is (a,b) -> Void
. By this implementation we can define 1-continuation (normal continuations) as (a,a)
-> Void, product type as ((a,b)->Void,(a,b)->Void)->Void
, sum type as ((a,a)->Void,(b,b)->Void)->Void
. This gives us an impressive of its power of expressiveness.
If we dig further, we will find out that Piece's existential graph is equivalent to a language with the only data type is n-continuation, but I didn't see any existing languages is in this form. So inventing one could be interesting, I think.