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Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com> writes:
> Or I would have started right away with effin' SPARK and proof
> theory. Would you suggest that to beginners :-D ?

I don't know.  To a pure beginner, probably not, but I wouldn't have
suggested Ada either.

SPARK isn't that connected to proof theory--it's just a program that
verifies contracts on Ada functions.  Proof theory as a topic in logic
is quite a bit different.  There's a book I like called "An Introduction
to Proof Theory" or something close to that, by Herman Ruge Jervell.
You might look for it.  But, I think you have to have already studied
some logic to make much sense of it.