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Curry-Howard-Lambek correspondence

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Curry-Howard Isomorphism is an isomorphism between types (in programming languages) and propositions (in logic). Interestingly, the isomorphism maps programs (functions in Haskell) to (constructive) proofs (and vice versa).

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The Answer

As is well established by now, 


theAnswer :: Integer
theAnswer = 42
The logical interpretation of the program is that the type
Integer</haskell> is inhibited (by the value <hask>42
), so the existence of this program proves the proposition
Integer
(a type without any value is the "bottom" type, a proposition with no proof).
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