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Catala is not meant to formalize a law which obviously was not written to "compute" something. It is meant as a tool to improve the fair and just enforcement of pieces of law that …

Yeah this seems boring and uninteresting but you might be surprised to hear that large organizations struggle a lot to get those things right: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-te…

It is actually a purely functional language : the compiler translates all the code to lambda calculus at some point ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3473582 ).

Thanks for pointing out the broken link, I just fixed it : https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala-website/commit/a5c4157a... . Your question is spot-on; for me the Catala code has to…

I've considered it, but from interactions with lawyers it seems that you don't need to put that degree of sophistication into the syntax for lawyers to be able to read and review t…

No, the language does not have self reflection, it is a domain specific language that is not even Turing complete. However Catala programs could be compiled to deep or shallow embe…

Hi, Catala author here. This is amazing! Please get in touch if you have any questions or just want to talk :)

Hi, Catala author here! (2) is definitely possible since the language has a formalization and is proof-oriented. I have plans to connect it to theorem provers for the kind of appli…

Very insightful update, I'll remember it. Thanks!

Hi, OP here :) I've come to the same conclusion about programming language creation. However, for a very large organization, it makes sense to have a team in charge of language too…

Hi, author here :) You seem to be well-informed of the DGFiP jargon, do you know if news of my work has been spreading among the IT department there?

It helps the State and private organizations to comply with the law when computing income tax, payroll taxes, etc. There's a huge gap between the law and how it is applied in some …

Hi, Catala author here :) Since I'm here please shoot your questions, I'll try to answer them.

Yes it could, although I'm not sure there is a single Prolog system running in production inside a large government agency at the moment. Also Prolog does not solve all the problem…

Hi, Catala author here :) Totally, tax law is usually the most precisely written. But it's still ambiguous as Sarah Lawsky points out https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstra…

Hi, Catala author here :) I totally agree that law should be readable and the Norwegian initiative seems great ! However at least in France we're stuck with the law he have and whi…

It's already been tried : http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2143/paper9.pdf . In a nutshell : NLP techniques don't work so well on the text of law, because it's too messy.