[Haskell-cafe] On the verge of ... giving up!

[ajb at spamcop.net]

G'day all.

Vimal <j.vimal at gmail.com> quoted someone else as saying:

> Monads in programming seem to be the most mysterious notion of the century.

I agree with the "hair shirt" talk on this.  I found understanding monads
no harder than understanding objects, starting from a comparable level of
ignorance.

I think the only difference is that "object" is a more accessible name
than "monad".

instance WarmFuzzyThing IO where ...

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage