Timothy G. Griffin

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  • 1990
  • In 1990, Griffin showed that Peirce's Law is the type of the continuation operator call/cc in Scheme. This remarkable observation demonstrates the relevance of the Curry-Howard correspondence even to control operators in programming languages.
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