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  • Yeah, understanding proof assistants would be the big practical thing. I can read a short proof in Lean, but a lot of it just feels like magic right now.

    It looks like I was mainly missing sequent calculus (I learned all in the Hilbert style of deduction) and the convention that gamma is the whole context. I’d see the notation and wonder if I missed something. Thank you for the effort you put in on this!

















  • Plus, it’s bloat. A snippet of extra code isn’t going to cause much trouble, but then you end up doing it a lot, and there’s snippets in the snippets, and all the sudden something that used to fit on a floppy is 3 gigs.

    I have no idea how much of a factor this is relative other various performance-sacrificing shortcuts, but Wirth’s law is a thing.