From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <94b72a275de4f8e6440aa79508edb7a4@terzarima.net> References: <94b72a275de4f8e6440aa79508edb7a4@terzarima.net> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:22:51 -0700 Message-ID: From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd17b34505ff20493c4b5ae Subject: Re: [9fans] A little more ado about async Tclunk Topicbox-Message-UUID: 725eab90-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd17b34505ff20493c4b5ae Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote: > >I think functional programming or at least category theory gets you into > >these upper level abstract ways of thinking > > uh oh. is there an analogy to Godwin's Law for mentioning category theory? > > I hope not... I'm merely trying to say the act of moving a problem between languages can shed some light from time to time. Category Theory really doesn't say too much in general, but oddly enough it applies nicely to computer science. What's that mean? :-) --000e0cd17b34505ff20493c4b5ae Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Charle= s Forsyth <fo= rsyth@terzarima.net> wrote: