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Re:History of Programming Languages by bradrn on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:50PM (#27058629)
As a Haskeller, I feel obliged to say that that is a parody. A self-parody, perhaps, but a parody nonetheless. In reality, the vast majority of Haskellers (including me!) wouldn’t have a clue what that sentence means — but we’re content to use monads nonetheless, because having a knowledge of the category theory underlying monads is unnecessary if you just want to use them in Haskell.
Re:History of Programming Languages by goto11 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @03:44AM (#27060233)
Yeah, in reality Haskellers are more like: A monad is just like a burrito, whats the problem?
Re:History of Programming Languages by the_benno on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:52PM (#27066041)
Except that is explicitly a parody/critique of what Brent Yorgey called the "monad tutorial fallacy": https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti...

This is the post that originally coined that phrase.

Re:History of Programming Languages by goto11 on Friday May 07, 2021 @03:53AM (#27073466)
Yeah, in reality Haskellers are more like: A monad is just like a spacesuit, whats the problem?