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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by tome on Sunday October 06, 2019 @07:14AM (#21171277)
I'm sorry, I don't understand which part of my comment you were replying to.
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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by goto11 on Sunday October 06, 2019 @07:24AM (#21171322)
You are suggesting that newcomers to Haskell should not care about what a monad is. I'm pointing out that tutorials like "Learn you a Haskell" are trying to explain monads before even getting to "Hello World".
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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by chrisoverzero on Sunday October 06, 2019 @11:55AM (#21172779)
> [...] trying to explain monads before even getting to "Hello World".

Chapter 9: Input and Output

Chapter 12: A Fistful of Monads

No, that doesn't seem to be the case to me.

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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by tome on Sunday October 06, 2019 @07:30AM (#21171350)
Well then, as you already know I agree with you that this is absurd!

> Yet for some reason newcomers (reputedly) want to know what a monad is before trying to use one! I agree with you: they should go ahead and use one and not worry about what it is!

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