[Haskell-cafe] Haskell & monads for newbies

[Derek Elkins]

On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 21:25 -0400, Steve Schafer wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:21:50 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> [quoting a generic attitude]
> 
> >"basically everything I write programs for is mainly about I/O..."
> 
> It's funny how people always seem to think that, but if you look at what
> they're really doing, I/O is usually the least of their worries.
> Programming GUIs is about the only reasonably common I/O-related task
> that has any sort of complexity. Most everything else is reading or
> writing streams of bytes; the hard part is what happens between the
> reading and the writing.

Or for a different slant look at xmonad. (www.xmonad.org)