Functor => Applicative => Monad

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 12/6/10 13:50 , John Smith wrote:
> My anecdotal experience is that developers much prefer the .NET/Java
> approach in this regard, but I'm not aware of a formal survey.

Agreeed.  Put more concretely, developers strongly prefer that ugly warts in
the language be *fixed*, even at the expense of backward compatibility.
Java, in particular, breaks things because a sufficient number of developers
have asked that backward compatibility be discarded in favor of fixes.

Also agreed that popularity is indeed *the* point.  The developers are your
customers; ignoring your customers' requests, in general, is a BAD thing.

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