Linear logic

Linear logic was introduced by Girard in 1987 [11] . Since then many results have supported Girard' s statement, "Linear logic is a resource conscious logic," and related slogans . Increasingly, computer scientists have come to recognize linear logic as an expressive and powerful logic with connection s to a variety of topics in computer science . This column presents a.n intuitive overview of linear logic, some recent theoretical results, an d summarizes several applications of linear logic to computer science . Other introductions to linear logic may be found in [12, 361 .

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