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What about a group? Is that combinable too? Monoid is short, precise, and googlable. Which also happens to be the case with group, monad, functor, etc. Why inve
by cscheid 13y ago
What about a group? Is that combinable too? Monoid is short, precise, and googlable. Which also happens to be the case with group, monad, functor, etc. Why invent new vocabulary?
Have you noticed how little sense the words "class", "struct", "union", "object" make to someone who hasn't programmed before? It's just that we got used to them.
- lmm 13y agoClasses, unions and objects are all everyday words. I knew them from mathematics and everyday life before I ever used them in programming.