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 > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
