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> I'm curious to know not only how it benefits an understanding of software development, programming languages and functional programming It did and does that too (not much, since I am still a learner): It helps me to write APIs that behave well; usually, that means being an API which outward facing parts compose well. (The opposite would be an API where you configure it's internal state until it does what you want - the more complex the API, the harder it gets to mantain the suiting mental model). To be honest, it will help me getting the theoretic motivation behind many FP-concepts like monads, but I am not yet deep enough, I would not say I reaped a practical benefit in my haskell-writing. Reading (and implementing) "Category for programmers", which is a great blog, should take me there tho. > but also has it helped you understand the world at large in new and novel ways? On a local scale, it was fascinating to see how you get logic and algebras by putting a little bit of additional order onto some abstract concept. These formal logic rules I leard? Turns out they are not only funny ways to play with symbols, but also funny ways to play with arbitrary finite sets. It was also nice to see how in category theory, you can "fix" nice properties by creating a new structures where these nice properties are objects. It is all pretty handweavy, since I am mostly going by my intuition unless I am pressed to prove something formally. This thread might help you: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/16i322/whats_the_i....
Globally, I am a christian, so I see everything and everyone in relation to God anyways. Category Theory might at best helped me to identify God as the intitial and terminal object in the Category `Human` ;) To give a short answer: I think CT is another tool in the box to gain a more connected view of the world, the main ingredients being age and observation of processes. |