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Re:Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional pro... by slowmovintarget on Monday October 16, 2017 @03:13PM (#15485838)
What do you mean by "doesn't have monads?" You just write monads in Clojure. They are only a structural formalism. [1]

If you meant doesn't have the Maybe monad built in... why would you want that tangled up in your data? [2]

  [1] https://github.com/khinsen/monads-in-clojure/blob/master/PART1.md

  [2] https://youtu.be/2V1FtfBDsLU?t=2381
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