[Agda] Hanging out with the Lean crowd

Ettore Aldrovandi aldrovandi at math.fsu.edu
Fri Aug 21 19:48:31 CEST 2020


Hi James, 

mathematician lurker here.  This is interesting:

> On Aug 21, 2020, at 12:47, James Wood <james.wood.100 at strath.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Most other areas of maths traditionally don't resemble this
> type-directed style of programming. There are few, small, inductive
> types, and a lot of reasoning is done at the level of algebraic axioms
> (with no inductive types in sight). These features largely nullify
> Agda's advantages, and instead the advantages of Lean and Coq in the
> field of proving shine through.

Can you elaborate a bit?

Thanks,

—Ettore
Ettore Aldrovandi
Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
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Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA * * aldrovandi at math dot fsu dot edu

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