Re: [Haskell-cafe] Where is the convergence point between Category Theory and Haskell?

2013-01-14 Thread Alfredo Di Napoli
Thanks everyone for the answers. Mine is just an experiment, but if I succeed in keeping it up and to come with something useful, I won't hesitate to poke you :) Btw, in case I succeed, posts will appear here: http://www.alfredodinapoli.com/posts.html and here:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Where is the convergence point between Category Theory and Haskell?

2013-01-14 Thread Aleksandar Dimitrov
[1] For more discussion on this point, see n-Lab and n-Cafe: http://ncatlab.org/ http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/ Wren, thanks very much for these two links. I've been trying for forever to get a foot into metamathematics and type theory in particular (not having the option of

[Haskell-cafe] Where is the convergence point between Category Theory and Haskell?

2013-01-13 Thread Alfredo Di Napoli
Morning Cafe, I'm planning to do a series of write-ups about Category Theory, to publish them on the company's blog I'm currently employed. I'm not a CT expert, but since the best way to learn something is to explain it to others, I want to take a shot :) In my mind I will structure the posts

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Where is the convergence point between Category Theory and Haskell?

2013-01-13 Thread Alexander Solla
There was a conversation on the cafe about this last month. Check out: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/haskell-cafe/tBO2AowUvMY Category theory is a language of composition. In logical terms, different categories are models of different axioms. That said, a rich enough category is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Where is the convergence point between Category Theory and Haskell?

2013-01-13 Thread Alfredo Di Napoli
Thank you Alexander for the reply. My wondering is: is Hask a category created by Haskell researchers or was something already present in literature? Cheers, A. On 13 January 2013 17:44, Alexander Solla alex.so...@gmail.com wrote: There was a conversation on the cafe about this last month.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Where is the convergence point between Category Theory and Haskell?

2013-01-13 Thread wren ng thornton
On 1/13/13 12:44 PM, Alexander Solla wrote: Hask is a very rich category, and is suitable for encoding a lot (but not all) of category theory. As far as I know, the actual boundary is as yet unknown. I'm not sure that's the most appropriate way to render things. In general, rich categories

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Where is the convergence point between Category Theory and Haskell?

2013-01-13 Thread wren ng thornton
On 1/13/13 1:53 PM, Alfredo Di Napoli wrote: Thank you Alexander for the reply. My wondering is: is Hask a category created by Haskell researchers or was something already present in literature? Hask was created by Haskellers in discussions on blogs etc. If one is being particular about the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Where is the convergence point between Category Theory and Haskell?

2013-01-13 Thread Christopher Howard
On 01/13/2013 03:15 AM, Alfredo Di Napoli wrote: Morning Cafe, I'm planning to do a series of write-ups about Category Theory, to publish them on the company's blog I'm currently employed. I'm not a CT expert, but since the best way to learn something is to explain it to others, I want to