[Haskell-beginners] Functors and Applicatives; I'm just not getting it ...

[Adam Flott]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:37:18 -0400
Frank <frankdmartinez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a "functors and applicatives for Dummies" I should
> read? Should I just give it up, not bother with Haskell and just stick to
> scheme/ruby/C++?
> 

Give this visual tutorial a whirl,

http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_monads_in_pictures.html

And then play around with http://hackage.haskell.org/package/optparse-applicative

Those 2 resources helped reinforce my understanding.
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