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I highly recommend looking through this for anyone curious. I thought the section on databases was especially interesting. Many database operations (join, schem
by ironSkillet 6y ago
I highly recommend looking through this for anyone curious. I thought the section on databases was especially interesting. Many database operations (join, schema change, etc) fit very neatly into category theory language.
- benrbray 6y agoI agree, the database angle is fascinating! There's an interesting CSTheory.SE answer here [1] with some pointers to further reading, written by one of the creators of the Datafun [2] query language. [1] https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/38221/is-there-a-relationship-between-relational-algebra-calculus-and-category-theory https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/38221/is-there-... [2] http://www.rntz.net/datafun/ http://www.rntz.net/datafun/