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Re:What does it mean for a monad to be strong? by consilient on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @03:43AM (#37219776)
> if we can't even use Monads without mathematically knowing they are Monads then no one is ever going to be using them.

You don't need to know what a monad is to use one. Everyone who has ever written a computer program has used one. Knowing that you're using a monad, and what that means about your program structure, is the entire value proposition here - actually applying particular monad operations is utterly trivial. "Monad" belongs in the same category as "data structure", not "tree".

Re:What does it mean for a monad to be strong? by koolala on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:34AM (#37220062)
:)
Re:What does it mean for a monad to be strong? by kfixjviv on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:00AM (#37223721)
"Everyone who has ever written a computer program has used one."

Absolutely false.