The best analogy I have found on Monads (written for Scala) is the one that compared them to Elephants. The author was referring the the blind men and elephant story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Men_and_an_Elephant
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Derek Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 08:16 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:08 AM, John Lato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my OP, and also > > perhaps > > clarify one point. I wasn't trying to be argumentative or > > negative > > about any work people have done to make Haskell approachable > > for OO > > programmers (or any other programmers, for that matter). I > > simply > > wanted to know what others thought about one item that was > > misleading > > to me in particular, and to see if others either agreed with > > me or had > > similar experiences. > > > > That being said, I know that it's a great deal of work to put > > together > > a useful tutorial, and I appreciate every one I read. > > Especially the > > monad tutorials, of which it took a half dozen before I got > > it. > > > > > > I've read a lot of the Monad tutorials, and I feel like I only get "most > of it" to be 100% honest. > > Maybe the problem isn't you, but what you are reading... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -- Daryoush Weblog: http://perlustration.blogspot.com/
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