Andrew, ;-) Agreed! As i said in my previous post, i can't address the imperative programmer. i really don't think that way and have a hard time understanding people who do! (-;
Best wishes, --greg On 8/1/07, Andrew Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's great, unless the imperative programmer happens to be one of > the 90% of programmers that isn't particularly familiar with group > theory... > > On 8/1/07, Greg Meredith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Haskellians, > > > > Though the actual metaphor in the monads-via-loops doesn't seem to fly > with > > this audience, i like the spirit of the communication and the implicit > > challenge: find a pithy slogan that -- for a particular audience, like > > imperative programmers -- serves to uncover the essence of the notion. i > > can't really address that audience as my first real exposure to > programming > > was scheme and i moved into concurrency and reflection after that and > only > > ever used imperative languages as means to an end. That said, i think i > > found another metaphor that summarizes the notion for me. In the same > way > > that the group axioms organize notions of symmetry, including addition, > > multiplication, reflections, translations, rotations, ... the monad(ic > > axioms) organize(s) notions of snapshot (return) and update (bind), > > including state, i/o, control, .... In short > > > > group : symmetry :: monad : update > > > > Best wishes, > > > > --greg > > > > -- > > L.G. Meredith > > Managing Partner > > Biosimilarity LLC > > 505 N 72nd St > > Seattle, WA 98103 > > > > +1 206.650.3740 > > > > http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > > > -- L.G. Meredith Managing Partner Biosimilarity LLC 505 N 72nd St Seattle, WA 98103 +1 206.650.3740 http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com
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