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Sure. It's funny with these algebraic things. If they're simple, people complain that they're not interesting... but when you add some depth, people complain th
by mbrock 9y ago
Sure. It's funny with these algebraic things. If they're simple, people complain that they're not interesting... but when you add some depth, people complain that it's too difficult!
- tome 9y ago"I don't want to have to understand abstract algebra to use Haskell!" "Abstract algebra is too simple to bother writing programming blogs about!"
- dllthomas 9y agoTo be fair, it may not be the same people.
- tome 9y agoI'm sure it's not! But even so it's interesting to be caught between these two antipodes. As your probably know there's another group of people, Andrej Bauer among them, who provide a different antithesis to "I don't want to have to understand category theory to use Haskell!" by exclaiming "Haskell doesn't use real category theory!". It's just generally quite amusing to be caught in the middle of all this.