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anvandare | 10 months ago

"The limits of my keyboard mean the limits of my programming language."

If only they had had ⊥ and ⊤ somewhere on their keys to work with Booleans directly while designing the languages. In another branch of history, perchance.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#/me...

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tossandthrow|10 months ago

⊥ and ⊤ is not entirely congruent to false and true.

Boolean and propositional logic is not the same.

Q6T46nT668w6i3m|10 months ago

For _ordinary_ two‑valued classical propositional logic, e.g., YAML, they are congruent.

rusk|10 months ago

I have an emacs macro for this