[Haskell-beginners] LYAHFGG, chapter 11 question

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Matthew Moppett <matthewmoppett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> And monads seem to be used much more often than applicatives in Haskell.


Much of that is historical: Monads have been around for a long time,
Applicatives are fairly recent, and a lot of things that are best done with
Applicatives were done with Monads because they were there.

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