Are Monads a Waste of Time?

Re:Are Monads a Waste of Time? by olavk on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @07:50AM (#16419921)

> I recommend you let go of your misconceptions and do some learning

Thank you for the advice! Monads seem to have some kind of smugness creation field.

I know there are other monads beside State and IO, I was specifically referencing the argument in the linked article which was about using monads for mutable state, basically turning the code into imperative style.

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Re:Are Monads a Waste of Time? by bad_user on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @08:11AM (#16420022)

That wasn’t smugness. I only replied to you because those were my thoughts from 5 years ago. And I was wrong.

And yes, it’s a little troubling that such awesome concepts are not penetrating the mainstream, being so misunderstood.

I blame the available leaning resources.

It took the GC 30 years after invention to become mainstream. Functional programming, actual functional programming, apparently takes longer than that.

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Re:Are Monads a Waste of Time? by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @01:20PM (#16422531)

> That wasn’t smugness.

Maybe not. It was still condescending, though...

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