X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=upcoming_topics.mdwn;fp=upcoming_topics.mdwn;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hp=b92a228fa602b1aab2a2bed93869890fef16e466;hb=347bc26072eb5d6c69943f72306768b28161f1ab;hpb=172783a2998a2d2d6a0e1cbda2e4f68710099fe3 diff --git a/upcoming_topics.mdwn b/upcoming_topics.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index b92a228f..00000000 --- a/upcoming_topics.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ -This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended scope. - - -14. Curry-Howard isomorphism between simply-typed lambda and intuitionistic propositional logic

-15. The types of continuations; continuations as first-class values - -## Continuations ## - -0. [Phil/ling application] Partee on whether NPs should be uniformly interpreted as generalized quantifiers, or instead "lifted" when necessary. Lifting = a CPS transform. -1. Using CPS to handle abortive computations (think: presupposition failure, expressives) -2. Using CPS to do other handy things, e.g., coroutines (cooperative threading) -3. Making evaluation order explicit with continuations -4. Delimited (quantifier scope) vs undelimited (expressives, presupposition) continuations -5. [Phil/ling application] [Barker/Shan on donkey anaphora](http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.1.1) -6. The continuation monad - -## Preemptively parallel computing and linear logic ## - -1. Basics of parallel programming: semaphores/mutexes -2. Contrasting "preemptive" parallelism to "cooperative" parallelism (coroutines, above) -3. Linear logic, "logical resource management" -4. [Phil/ling application] Barker on free choice, imperatives - - -##Other## -17. [Phil/ling application] Expletives

-18. Some references: - * [de Groote on the lambda-mu calculus in linguistics](http://www.loria.fr/%7Edegroote/papers/amsterdam01.pdf) - * [on donkey anaphora and continuations](http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.1.1) - * [Wadler on symmetric sequent calculi](http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/dual-reloaded/dual-reloaded.pdf) -19. Dependent types -