Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
Ouch, I should not have brought up these monads again! I should have known
better ;-)
Mmm... ;-)
I hope the Haskell community understands that for outsiders / newbies who want to learn
or just look at Haskell and then do some Googling, all this monad talk looks a bit euh
"strange"?
Yeah. I spent time on another forum trying to explain Haskell. I wrote a
fifty-mile long post that's basically a complete beginner's introduction
to the language. Every reply was of the form "wow, did you write all
that yourself? That's really good! You should write stuff for a
living... Haskell sounds kinda cool, but... monads look very hard, and
basically everything I write programs for is mainly about I/O..."
I'm sure others have seen something similar...
Maybe in the next version of Haskell monads should be called something different
SPJ suggested "warm fuzzy thing". ;-)
and then all these tutorials and discussions about monads will then be silently
forgotten over time ;-)
Oh, I don't know about that...
(I for one still haven't figured out how to work monad transformers, for
example. And they look useful...)
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