[Haskell-beginners] Left vs Right

[emacstheviking]

Kool-Aid! It affects ones spelling too! LMAO

On 17 April 2015 at 08:10, emacstheviking <objitsu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah. Learning Lisp did it for me....Haskell is super-strength Kiil-Aid
> baby! Drink it and be changed forever.
>
>
> On 16 April 2015 at 22:22, Greg Graham <greg at grahamtx.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:42 AM emacstheviking <objitsu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "Semantically, "Either left right" can be seen as a container of one or
>>> zero "right" that contains out-of-band information of type "left" when it's
>>> empty. So when you fmap over it, you only touch the content, not the
>>> out-of-band information."
>>>
>>> Yup. Whatever he said. ;)  ...that's bordering on monadic comparison
>>> tutorials if you ask me... LOL. A lot of people may not even know what "in
>>> band" and "out-of-band" even means. I grew up with X25, RS232, HDLC etc so
>>> that's ok by me. You have to be very very careful about how you explain
>>> things to  people. One of my favourite videos on YouTube is some guy asking
>>> Richard Feynman how magnets work...well, he did ask!
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
>>>
>>
>> I am just learning Haskell, having just finished working through _Learn
>> You a Haskell_, so I am no expert. However, the learning curve I am
>> experience reminds me of when I went from Applesoft BASIC to Pascal, and
>> when I went from C to C++. There was a lot of new terminology to learn such
>> as single-entry/single exit, procedures, formal and actual parameters,
>> encapsulation, polymorphism, early and late binding, and overloading.There
>> were plenty of nay-sayers that claimed that these paradigms introduced
>> unnecessary difficulties, but today you have to search far and wide for
>> someone who advocates GOTOs, and although O-O is not universally loved, it
>> is easily the dominant paradigm.
>>
>> So, although I am still finding Haskell to be awkward for me, I am able
>> to wrestle with it until it clicks into place, and then it's really
>> beautiful. I feel like the benefits of the language will outweigh the
>> effort it is taking me to learn it.
>>
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