Tag: functional programming
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Book Review: “Combinators: A Centennial View” by Stephen Wolfram
In a landscape teeming with treatises on computation, Stephen Wolfram’s “Combinators: A Centennial View” emerges as a lustrous gem that elegantly straddles the line between art and science. Not only is it a visually captivating piece, but it also provides an insightful excavation into the foundational stratum of computational theory. As someone deeply involved in…
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Introduction to Monads
Definition All told, a monad in X is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors of X, with product × replaced by composition of endofunctors and unit set by the identity endofunctor. Categories for the Working Mathematician Or simplified: A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors Anonymous The second phrase…