No.

The problem isn't that it's hard to express the abstract, the problem is it's 
hard to express the level of abstraction one is referencing simply without 
confusion.

Julian

On 03/06/2013, at 5:48 AM, shawnmorel <[email protected]> wrote:

>> It's pretty difficult to visually express "a class of objects" (or any 
>> concept that is meta to the concrete, really) unless you perhaps used the 
>> greek concept of icon, however we've overused that in computing such that an 
>> icon is now taken to mean the thing it's an icon for… 
> 
> Category theory seems to do a rather good job of expressing the abstract with 
> graphical notation no?
> 
> shawn
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