Thursday, April 19, 2012

Why Do Monads Matter? « Sententia cdsmithus

Why Do Monads Matter? « Sententia cdsmithus: "Or if you’re interested in mathematics, have you heard murmurs in the past about how category theory interests computer science people?  Looked for some clear statement of why we care, and what problems we might be interested in?  Wondered if it’s really true at all?  Perhaps you are like a friend of mine (and a first-rate algebraist, too, so it’s entirely reasonable to have these questions) who asked me about this a year or so ago, remembered hearing a lot of excitement in the early 90s about category theory and computer science, but never heard whether it had really panned out or was a dead end?"

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