Extraction of Efficient Programs in $I\Sigma_1$-arithmetic

Abstract

Clausal Language (CL) is a declarative programming and verifying system used in our teaching of computer science. CL is an implementation of, what we call, $\mathit{PR}{+}I\Sigma_1$ paradigm (primitive recursive functions with $I\Sigma_1$-arithmetic). This paper introduces an extension of $I\Sigma_1$-proofs called extraction proofs where one can extract from the proofs of $\Pi_2$-specifications primitive recursive programs as efficient as the hand-coded ones. This is achieved by having the programming constructs correspond exactly to the proof rules with the computational content.