Categories for the Working Haskeller

The Haskell community is famous - perhaps infamous - for its enthusiasm for category theory. Why is this? Is it important to understand categories before you can understand Haskell programs? Is it an attempt to keep the community as pure as the language? Is it just that Haskell is a refuge for under...

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Autor Principal: Gibbons, J
Formato: Record
Publicado: Talk at Skills Matter Haskell eXchange 2014