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I disagree. I think that if you understand functional programming and abstraction, you understand a certain amount of Category Theory even if you don't know to
by j_baker 14y ago
I disagree. I think that if you understand functional programming and abstraction, you understand a certain amount of Category Theory even if you don't know to call it "Category Theory".
- lubutu 14y agoAnalogously, "you don't need maths to tell you that one and one is two."
- DanWaterworth 14y agoAs soon as you have an understanding that one and one is two, you have maths.
- Confusion 14y agoThat's bait and switch. The question is whether people should study category theory to be better programmers. Not whether good programmers have intuitively mastered some category theory.