Category Archives: Functional Programming

Applicatives are generalized functors

In my previous blog post about categories and functors I already threatened you with the possibility of a follow-up. Well, here we go. Actually I won’t talk about category theory this time, but about an important abstraction from the world … Continue reading

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Introduction to Category Theory in Scala

If you are a former Java developer and have become a Scala fanboy like me, you will probably sooner or later encounter terms like monad, functor or other mysteries from the realm of category theory which make you feel like … Continue reading

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