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| | Perhaps primarily due to the prominence of monads in the Haskell programming language, programmers are often curious about category theory. Proponents of Haskell and other functional languages can put category-theoretic concepts on a pedestal or in a mexican restaurant, and their benefits can seem as mysterious as they are magical. For instance, the most common use of a monad in Haskell is to simulate the mutation of immutable data. Others include suspending and backtracking computations, and even untying tangled rope.
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| | We have this friendly competition going on between Eric Niebler and myself. He writes some clever C++ template code, and I feel the compulsion to explain it to him in functional terms. Then I write a blog about Haskell or category theory and Eric feels a compulsion to translate it into C++. Eric is now...
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