(With apologies to Queen.) Is this the RealWorld#? Is this I/O I see? Caught in a monad - No escape back to purity Open a file, it wipes out my smile to see I'm just a programmer, don't need a Ph.D I'm easy come, easy go Don't need this high brow weird monadic action, no real reaction for me, from G-HC Hey man, I just found out that it is easy to achieve using unsafeInterleave and unsafe...PerformIO but people tell me I should let those go Oh man, no-o-o I'm about to start to cry If I can't make this stuff compile tomorrow I will just carry on Nothing really matters. Too late - 'cause I got it now there are monads all around IO, State and lists abound It's easy, like those people say but my program got abstracted all away! Maybe - o o o, It's a monad too, I know Why should I use another language at all? -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants