Odersky is repeatedly wrong on this subject and specifically for the claim that you quote, the only response is simply "not true." On 24/06/12 15:31, Jonathan Geddes wrote:
Cafe,
I was watching a panel on languages[0] recently and Martin Odersky (the creator of Scala) said something about Monads:
"What's wrong with Monads is that if you go into a Monad you have to change your whole syntax from scratch. Every single line of your program changes if you get it in or out of a Monad. They're not polymorphic so it's really the old days of Pascal. A monomorphic type system that says 'well that's all I do' ... there's no way to abstract over things. " [0, 53:45]
Thoughts?
--J Arthur
[0] - http://css.dzone.com/articles/you-can-write-large-programs
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