[Agda] Pie in the sky

[Andreas Abel]

On Sep 25, 2010, at 7:22 AM, Samuel Gélineau wrote:
> Somebody should write a
> provably-terminating Agda compiler in Agda; this would make it much
> easier to ensure that further language extensions preserve
> termination.

(applause)

I love the "Somebody". :-)

But seriously: that would be the ultimate feasibility proof for  
dependently-typed programming.  But I think we need to continue  
working a bit on Agda (performance, proof automation, termination  
check ...) before we can depart on this adventure.



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