94 pointsby ravenical11 hours ago5 comments
  • keiferski10 hours ago
    If you were wondering, the name comes from a famous philosopher and logician:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Carnap

    • Pet_Ant4 hours ago
      Thanks... you just ruined it.

      I was so happy that finally that splendid slumber during transportation was finally getting the recognition it so richly deserves.

      ;)

      • keiferski3 hours ago
        Ha, I’ve been familiar with Carnap for probably a decade and it took your comment for me to realize his name is Car Nap.
  • cartucho18 hours ago
    For something similar, but in Python, I made this a while ago:

    https://logics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

    GUI here:

    https://taut-logic.com/

  • netdevphoenix10 hours ago
    An Open Tower project. Copyright 2015-2024.

    Doesn't look like it is been updated in a while. And the GitHub repos last commits are even older. Dead project?

    • gleachkr6 hours ago
      Hey, Carnap creator here. Definitely not dead (still actively used by plenty of universities), but pretty stable these days.
    • benrutter9 hours ago
      I think that's probably unlikely given the long list of universities using it[0].

      It's an educational tool for formal propositional logic which hasn't really changed much on 100 years, so probably not a lot of updates are required unless there are big new updates to Haskell itself.

      [0] https://carnap.io/about

      • imovie44 hours ago
        the list is also incomplete! I used carnap for intro logic and my college isn't there
        • ravenical3 hours ago
          My university's course (how I found out about it) isn't there either - seems like it's mostly US-focused
          • gleachkr2 hours ago
            Y'all want to email me? I'll see about updating the list.
    • LandR9 hours ago
      Or maybe it's finished ?
      • mark_l_watson9 hours ago
        +1

        It seems to of had the web app portion updated a year ago. And as you say, the application itself looks ‘done.’

        I have frequently used Common Lisp over the last 40 years, and I hear comments about libraries being old and not updated in many years: so what! Quality code that performs a specific function sometimes is ‘done.’

        I am a novice Haskell programmer but I enjoy the language and it is very cool to have the Carnap github repo with a book manuscript, backend and front end code to look over.

  • cubefox8 hours ago
    I don't like the trend of naming software projects after real people. It makes web search harder both for people who try to find the person and for people who try to find the project.
    • amelius8 hours ago
      I don't like the trend of naming computer hardware after fruit.
      • ffuxlpff5 hours ago
        I don't like naming things after other things. Names should be self explanatory or random codes.
        • Cheyana4 hours ago
          Everything should just be in Zalgo text.
  • throwaway4x410 hours ago
    Past experience in logical frameworks tend to specify documentclass: script, letter, report, etc.