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In a 1980 paper entitled “Using Category Theory to Design Conversions and Generic Operators”, the author showed how the concepts of category theory can guide the design of a programming language to avoid anomalies in the interaction of implicit conversions and generic operators.
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Reynolds, J.C. (2009). Using Category Theory to Design Programming Languages. In: Castagna, G. (eds) Programming Languages and Systems. ESOP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5502. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00590-9_5
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