Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
Ouch, I should not have brought up these monads again! I should have known better ;-)
Mmm... ;-)
I hope the Haskell community understands that for outsiders / newbies who want to learn or just look at Haskell and then do some Googling, all this monad talk looks a bit euh "strange"?
Yeah. I spent time on another forum trying to explain Haskell. I wrote a fifty-mile long post that's basically a complete beginner's introduction to the language. Every reply was of the form "wow, did you write all that yourself? That's really good! You should write stuff for a living... Haskell sounds kinda cool, but... monads look very hard, and basically everything I write programs for is mainly about I/O..." I'm sure others have seen something similar...
Maybe in the next version of Haskell monads should be called something different
SPJ suggested "warm fuzzy thing". ;-)
and then all these tutorials and discussions about monads will then be silently forgotten over time ;-)
Oh, I don't know about that... (I for one still haven't figured out how to work monad transformers, for example. And they look useful...)