On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 15:08 +0200, D.V. wrote: > On 7/12/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Monads take a while to "get used to", but they're not so scary after that... > > The problem with monads is that there is a gazillion tutorials to > explain them, each with their own analogy that works well for the > author but not necessarily for you. > > It adds to the complexity of something that is indeed, not so > difficult after all.
Agreed. More strongly, the main problem with monads nowadays is that there are gazillions of -bad- tutorials and only a few decent ones. Back in the day, when there were only a few tutorials, the main problem was people generalizing to quickly from particular instances. Those people went on to write monad tutorials. I think I'll make a "not monad" tutorial about what monads are not. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
