[Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

Miguel Mitrofanov miguelimo38 at yandex.ru
Thu Jan 15 15:08:36 EST 2009


> For what it's worth, many (most/all?) programmers I know in person  
> don't have the slightest clue about Category Theory and they may  
> have known about abstract algebra once upon a time but certainly  
> don't remember any of it now. They usually understand the concepts  
> perfectly well enough but by "lay terms" or by no particular name at  
> all.

One of my friend once said "... and by 'programmer' I mean 'category  
theory specialist'".


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