Comments on A Neighborhood of Infinity: The Interchange Law

Whether you think you know the subject well enough...

2009-10-17T18:47:57.810-07:00

Whether you think you know the subject well enough or not, I'd like to second the idea of a book. There's been a furor of late over on Reddit about the impenetrability of most books on category theory (due mostly to the jargon and lack of examples). And here at Indiana Uni some folks are working on teaching undergrads about monads without using the scary M word. So there's definitely an audience out there for CT in English.

As someone who knows a fair deal of CT, I've always found your posts a delight to read and the concrete examples really help for making the higher concepts make sense in the world of day-to-day programming. And after trying to teach friends CT by examples rather than by definitions for the past couple years, it'd be nice to have a book to direct folks to. Heck, I'd even be willing to help write such a thing if need be.

I'm not convinced I know the subject well enough. ...

2008-07-08T08:16:00.000-07:00

I'm not convinced I know the subject well enough. And anyway, I never manage to complete papers, let alone an entire book! Not without giving up my day job anyway.

I guess this is something you get asked a lot...bu...

2008-05-22T03:16:00.000-07:00

I guess this is something you get asked a lot...but I'll add my voice to the throng anyway. Are you going to write a book on categories and functional programming? Thanks to your blog it will enjoy the unusual status of being a classic before even having been written.