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The idea of taking the derivative of an algebraic data type is also discussed in "Categories and Computer Science" from 1992: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/categories-and-computer...

That discussion covers some of the same ground as the Taylor series idea elsewhere in thus discussion. It doesn't get as far as inventing the zipper concept.




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