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> In other sub-fields (e.g. OO, logic programming and concurrency), category theory has not so far proven terribly useful.

I wouldn't say that. I don't know about OO and logic programming, but there's a good amount of categorical/homotopical structure lurking around concurrency. See for example [1], [2] or [3].

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.46.9...

[2] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/2108154_A_model_cate...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_algebraic_topology



You mean Goubault-style homotopy stuff. I don't this this is very categorical, e.g. [2] produces a single category, so I wouldn't call this an example of categorical structure. The Gunawardena paper [1] doesn't exhibit categorical structure either.




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