[Haskell-cafe] Why monad tutorials don't work

Bill Wood william.wood3 at comcast.net
Tue Aug 14 23:46:39 EDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 16:02 -0700, Dan Piponi wrote:
   . . .
> On 8/14/07, Michael Vanier <mvanier at cs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> >  I'm reminded of
> > a physics teacher who was having a similar problem explaining the concept of tensors, until he said
> > that "a tensor is something that transforms like a tensor does!".
> 
> Grrr...must...hold...my...tongue...

Dan, as a former student of a clone of that physics teacher, I am really
interested in what you will say when you fail to hold your tongue.

 -- Bill Wood




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