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While in practice full correctness proofs are rarely forthcoming, computer scientists still employ tools that guarantee some form of correctness. One of these tools is a type checker for the language. Types fine-tune the grammatical structure of the language, and bring semantic intuitions to the grammatical party. The following is a quote from Pierce’s text on types in programming languages.
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Turner, R. (2018). Types and Correctness. In: Computational Artifacts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55565-1_26
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