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By Adam Gordon Bell - Software Developer

Tech Talk: Category Theory with Bartosz Milewski

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Published August 15, 2019 5:00am

Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions.

Today Adam talks to Bartosz Milewski. He is the author of a famous blog series, lecture series and now book on Category Theory for programmers.

The world of functional programming is rife with terminology imported from abstract algebra and Category Theory. In fact, it may be one of the most valid criticisms of functional programming is the use of Category-Theoretic terminology that can be unwelcoming to newcomers.

Category theory can also be a tool to teach us to see software development in a different light and it...

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