Owen Densmore wrote: > We've knocked around the term Category Theory a bit lately, so I > started looking into it a bit. With Language Integrated Query (LINQ), Microsoft has brought monads, closures, and type inference to the upcoming Visual Studio (Orcas). They seem to have a good chunk of the functional programming brain trust at MSR, and now its diffusing to their products..
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