Sequent calculus as a compiler intermediate language

Paul Downen, Luke Maurer, Zena M. Ariola, Simon Peyton Jones
2016 Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming - ICFP 2016  
The λ-calculus is popular as an intermediate language for practical compilers. But in the world of logic it has a lesser-known twin, born at the same time, called the sequent calculus. Perhaps that would make for a good intermediate language, too? To explore this question we designed Sequent Core, a practically-oriented core calculus based on the sequent calculus, and used it to re-implement a substantial chunk of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
doi:10.1145/2951913.2951931 dblp:conf/icfp/DownenMAJ16 fatcat:ava2wbawqfcjhcomtmruxexcki