The best analogy I have found on Monads (written for Scala)  is the one that compared them to Elephants.  The author was referring the the blind men and elephant story:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Men_and_an_Elephant



On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Derek Elkins <derek.a.elkins@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 08:16 -0700, David Leimbach wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:08 AM, John Lato <jwlato@gmail.com> wrote:
>         I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my OP, and also
>         perhaps
>         clarify one point.  I wasn't trying to be argumentative or
>         negative
>         about any work people have done to make Haskell approachable
>         for OO
>         programmers (or any other programmers, for that matter).  I
>         simply
>         wanted to know what others thought about one item that was
>         misleading
>         to me in particular, and to see if others either agreed with
>         me or had
>         similar experiences.
>
>         That being said, I know that it's a great deal of work to put
>         together
>         a useful tutorial, and I appreciate every one I read.
>          Especially the
>         monad tutorials, of which it took a half dozen before I got
>         it.
>
>
> I've read a lot of the Monad tutorials, and I feel like I only get "most of it" to be 100% honest.

Maybe the problem isn't you, but what you are reading...
>

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