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I'm curious to know which came first? In any case it's annoying to have different languages adopting the same word to mean vaguely related but actually complet
by zmmmmm 11y ago
I'm curious to know which came first?
In any case it's annoying to have different languages adopting the same word to mean vaguely related but actually completely different things. I suspect that is why a lot of tutorials about Monads skip talking about Functors altogether which ends up making the whole thing more confusing.
- archgoon 11y ago> I'm curious to know which came first? The math definitions. These were invented by Saunders Mac Lane and Samuel Eilenberg back in 1945ish, about a year before ENIAC was built.