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Re:The Monad Challenges: Jump start your understanding of mo... by Chinjut on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @07:33PM (#10935208)
That comment of mine wasn't the spiel I'd give to someone first trying to learn about the typical use of monads in a programming context, any more than I'd lecture a beginning programmer on the general theory of commutative rings while introducing integer and floating-point arithmetic (the latter not actually comprising a commutative ring...).

But teaching the use of monads to unfamiliar programmers wasn't my goal in that comment. I was just pointing out the accurate response to "Adjunctions aren't highly relevant to programming".

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Re:The Monad Challenges: Jump start your understanding of mo... by bassislife on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @09:14PM (#10935619)
What if one simply says that a monad describes a pattern of morphisms composition ? Adjunctions being the plumbing ?

(honest question, just trying to find a simple, grokkable definition)

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Re:The Monad Challenges: Jump start your understanding of mo... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @11:17AM (#10939092)
Fair enough. There's a place here for technical accuracy all the way down.
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