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Re:Does category theory make you a better programmer? by Dn_Ab on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @05:53AM (#4316449)
It is not a tight analogy. But: In set theory you pay a lot of attention to the internals of collections of objects. In category theory you are more interested in capturing structure and relationships.

In imperative programming you specify the internal sequence that makes up an operation, in functional programming you are more interested in the high level declarations, compositions and that the constraints on them are satisfied.

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