[Haskell-cafe] IO is a bad example for Monads

[Ketil Malde]

Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at web.de> writes:

>>> IO is important because you can't write any real program without using
>>> it.

>> Ouch!  I get awfully discouraged when I read statements like this
>> one.

> I think Lennart was referring to that, you HAVE to know a little IO to write 
> programmes, at least getArgs, getLine, putStr(Ln), readFile, writeFile, 
> appendFile. And therefore some use of the IO monad has to be taught 
> relatively early.

Well, I guess you could get pretty far using 'interact' - far enough
in an educational setting to do lists and Maybe, and then monads,
before introducing monadic IO.

-k
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