Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell & monads for newbies (was "Functional dependencies *not* part of the next Haskell standard?")

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 15:08 +0200, D.V. wrote:

On 7/12/07, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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Monads take a while to "get used to", but they're not so scary after that...

The problem with monads is that there is a gazillion tutorials to explain them, each with their own analogy that works well for the author but not necessarily for you.

It adds to the complexity of something that is indeed, not so difficult after all.

Agreed. More strongly, the main problem with monads nowadays is that there are gazillions of -bad- tutorials and only a few decent ones. Back in the day, when there were only a few tutorials, the main problem was people generalizing to quickly from particular instances. Those people went on to write monad tutorials. I think I'll make a "not monad" tutorial about what monads are not.