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Categories, What’s the Point?

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Perhaps primarily due to the prominence of monads in the Haskell programming language, programmers are often curious about category theory. Proponents of Haskell and other functional languages can …

Categories, What's the Point? #categories #mathematics 2013-04-16 This article was ported from my old Wordpress blog here, If you see any issues with the rendering or layout, please send me an email . Perhaps primarily due to the prominence of monads in the Haskell programming language , programmers are often curious about category theory. Proponents of Haskell and other functional languages can put category-theoretic concepts on a pedestal or in a mexican restaurant , and their benefits can seem as mysterious as they are magical. For instance, the most common use of a monad in Haskell is to s

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