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by GregarianChild 149 days ago
This definition is my potentially flawed attempt at summarising the essence of what program extraction is intended to do (however imperfect in practise).

I think extraction goes beyond 'mere' compilation. Otherwise we did not need to program inside an ITP. I do agree that the state-of-the-art does not really full reach this platonic ideal