[Haskell-cafe] The Trivial Monad

[Derek Elkins]

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Adrian,
> 
> Friday, May 4, 2007, 11:43:35 AM, you wrote:
> 
>> don't understand what this monad thingy is all about.
> 
> the whole monadic business was introduced with the sole goal to let
> haskellers believe that they are smarter than other programmers :)

Indeed.  Continuation-based IO would have been so much clearer.