[Haskell-cafe] monads and groups -- instead of loops

2007-08-01 Thread Greg Meredith
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] monads and groups -- instead of loops

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Wagner
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] monads and groups -- instead of loops

2007-08-01 Thread Greg Meredith
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] monads and groups -- instead of loops

2007-08-01 Thread Cale Gibbard
On 01/08/07, 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