[Haskell] Re: Everything Your Professor Failed to Tell You About Functional Programming

Aaron Denney wnoise at ofb.net
Tue Jan 31 19:13:06 EST 2006


On 2006-01-31, Cale Gibbard <cgibbard at gmail.com> wrote:
> The point about monads being a design pattern I actually wouldn't take
> too much exception to, except for the fact that I don't really like
> the term "design pattern" in the first place. :) Too often, the things
> people call design patterns are just ordinary functions or general
> interfaces in a more expressive programming language.

Right.  I'd call haskell's typeclasses excellent language support for
formalizing and truly taking advantage of design patterns where
appropriate.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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