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Re:Monads are too powerful: The Expressiveness Spectrum by tasuki on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @07:15PM (#45599484)
This is as good an explanation of monads as any. Which is to say, bad.
Re:Monads are too powerful: The Expressiveness Spectrum by kelipso on Thursday October 16, 2025 @08:33AM (#45604567)
So many people just turn their brain off when they read the GP post. Which I guess it’s fine, there are plenty of actual explanations, but it’s so widespread in the Haskell adjacent communities and annoying when programming is made into something mysterious like this.