Programmers who want to change how we code before catastrophe strikes

Re:Programmers who want to change how we code before catastr... by mac01021 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @07:45AM (#15356379)

I remain open-minded to the idea that category theory could help me make better computer programs, but I have yet to see anything that suggests to me that it really would.

FWIW, I understand how monads work in Haskell & co, and I definitely see their value. But I don't consider myself to know any category theory at all.

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Re:Programmers who want to change how we code before catastr... by noir_lord on Thursday September 28, 2017 @12:11PM (#15358256)

SQL and category theory have a fair degree of overlap so there is that.

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Re:Programmers who want to change how we code before catastr... by mac01021 on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:29AM (#15365566)

Are you suggesting that reading a book on Category Theory might make me better at writing SQL queries?

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