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Agreed. Explanations of git sometimes remind me of monad tutorials.
by tempodox 5y ago
Agreed. Explanations of git sometimes remind me of monad tutorials.
- contravariant 5y agoI suppose you could combine the two by pointing out that git is like a category where a git merge is like a pushout etc.
- lvass 5y agoGit is simply a directed acyclic graph of commits with pointers, stashes, a few named data stores and two quasi-recursion mechanisms.
- tempodox 5y ago“A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors.”
- CrazyPyroLinux 5y ago"It's like a burrito!"
- PebblesRox 5y agoFor the unfamiliar: https://www.google.com/amp/s/byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuition-and-the-monad-tutorial-fallacy/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/1...