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If so, prove; if not, explain why.
## Standard Library
Definitions similar to those in this chapter can be found in the standard library.

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Since 2013, I have taught a course on Types and Semantics for
Programming Languages to fourth-year undergraduates and masters
students at the University of Edinburgh. That course is not based on
TAPL, but on Pierce's subsequent textbook, [Software Foundations][sf],
the excellent [Types and Programming Languages][tapl] by Benjamin
Pierce, but on Pierce's subsequent textbook, [Software Foundations][sf],
written in collaboration with others and based on Coq. I am convinced
of Pierce's claim that basing a course around a proof assistant aids
learning, as summarised in his ICFP Keynote, [Lambda, The Ultimate