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j2kun on April 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Math topics useful for computer science/programmin...

The importance of structure preserving mappings shows up in many other places besides functional programming. I do believe context is important, but having multiple contexts is even better.

nmrm on April 21, 2014 [–]

> but having multiple contexts is even better.

Given the investment necessary to make this jump, I believe that the benefit outweighs the cost for most.

j2kun on April 21, 2014 | [–]

You don't need to teach category theory proper to get the idea. So I think we are in agreement :)

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