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Re:A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (2015) by dllthomas on Sunday August 02, 2020 @07:06PM (#24032569)
I very much enjoyed a Kmett talk where he described needing to parameterize some lens thing with an index, a monad it would operate under, the source focus, the target focus, and three different containing structures, with some pieces repeated... and then realizing the type arguments said `i m a s t a b u` and decided he had probably gone too far.
Re:A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (2015) by eru on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:08AM (#24034145)
What's interesting is that Ed Kmett isn't even a dyed in the wool Haskeller. He has more than a foot in the C++ world.

He's quite brilliant, but I still haven't really gotten used to the full power of lenses, yet. I only used them in simple ways.