Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can somebody give any advice for beginners?

Dan Piponi wrote:

On 9/11/07, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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you can fall down a monad and not be able to escape...

It's not so bad. It's in the nature of monads that after you've fallen in once, you can never get trapped any deeper.

But you can climb higher... (Note: Best viewed in mono-space!) Programmer's Nirvana plane --------------- Categoric plane --------------- Co-Monadic plane (Co- everything) ----------------- Applicative plane ---------------------- Pointless-pointfree plane ------------------------------ Monadic plane (don't get trapped) --------------- --------------- Functional plane (Haskell et al!) --------------- --------------- Imperative plane ASM, C#, Java :) --------------- --------------- Physical plane (e.g. Silicon) -- Ron