[Haskell-cafe] Re: What I wish someone had told me...

Daryoush Mehrtash dmehrtash at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 03:03:30 EDT 2008


The best analogy I have found on Monads (written for Scala)  is the one that
compared them to Elephants.  The author was referring the the blind men and
elephant story:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Men_and_an_Elephant



On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Derek Elkins <derek.a.elkins at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 08:16 -0700, David Leimbach wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:08 AM, John Lato <jwlato at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my OP, and also
> >         perhaps
> >         clarify one point.  I wasn't trying to be argumentative or
> >         negative
> >         about any work people have done to make Haskell approachable
> >         for OO
> >         programmers (or any other programmers, for that matter).  I
> >         simply
> >         wanted to know what others thought about one item that was
> >         misleading
> >         to me in particular, and to see if others either agreed with
> >         me or had
> >         similar experiences.
> >
> >         That being said, I know that it's a great deal of work to put
> >         together
> >         a useful tutorial, and I appreciate every one I read.
> >          Especially the
> >         monad tutorials, of which it took a half dozen before I got
> >         it.
> >
> >
> > I've read a lot of the Monad tutorials, and I feel like I only get "most
> of it" to be 100% honest.
>
> Maybe the problem isn't you, but what you are reading...
> >
>
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Daryoush

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