Re: [Haskell-beginners] Functors and Applicatives; I'm just not getting it ...

On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:37:18 -0400 Frank wrote:

Is there a "functors and applicatives for Dummies" I should read? Should I just give it up, not bother with Haskell and just stick to scheme/ruby/C++?

Give this visual tutorial a whirl, http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_monads_in_pictur... And then play around with http://hackage.haskell.org/package/optparse-applicative Those 2 resources helped reinforce my understanding.