[Haskell-cafe] Haskell & monads for newbies

[Steve Schafer]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:21:50 +0100, you wrote:

[quoting a generic attitude]

>"basically everything I write programs for is mainly about I/O..."

It's funny how people always seem to think that, but if you look at what
they're really doing, I/O is usually the least of their worries.
Programming GUIs is about the only reasonably common I/O-related task
that has any sort of complexity. Most everything else is reading or
writing streams of bytes; the hard part is what happens between the
reading and the writing.

Steve Schafer
Fenestra Technologies Corp.
http://www.fenestra.com/