> I don't care about category theory at all and you can have all the practical benefits of category theory without putting it on a pedestial. It's neat to write

> I don't care about category theory at all and you can have all the practical benefits of category theory without putting it on a pedestial. It's neat to write more generic functions and stuff but there is no need to glorify it. Agreed. Here's part of a recent email correspondence between me and a fairly prominent functional programmer who's written at least one celebrated paper: > > I didn't want anyone to get the impression that they had to understand "category theory" or "maths" in order to use Haskell. This is a misconception about Haskell that is sadly far too prevalent in my opinion. > I agree. That being said, I haven't seen anyone in this discussion glorifying category theory, unless I missed something?