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Types a la milner

April 20, 2015

By Scott

Hey Everyone! Friday night we covered the first two sections of Milner’s famous paper, “A Theory of Type Polymorphism in Programming”, the conversational sections.

Next week we will continue on, I don’t think we picked a specific stopping point, as far as you can get is good. We will meet at the same time and place, Friday night at 6:30pm at Bento Miso.

Pete has taken the lead on this paper and I encourage everyone to check out his summary notes on github, https://github.com/CompSciCabal/SMRTYPRTY/wiki/Paper!-Milner-Type-Polymorphism . He does a great job at summarizing the main ideas in the paper so far. It seems like this paper formulates some of the ideas like soundness and completeness in a more clear way than we have seen before in our other readings.

Looking forward to seeing you all on Friday, Scott?