Okay, so you and I both know monads are great, they allow us to sequence effects in a structured way and are in many ways a super-power in the functional-programming toolkit. It’s likely none of us would have even heard … Read more
Monads are like burritos A few months ago Brent Yorgey complained about a certain class of tutorials which present monads by explaining how monads are like burritos. At first I thought the choice of burritos was only a facetious reference … Read more
There are two techniques in software development that have an almost gnostic mystique about them: monads and macros. The photo is a pun [1]. Pride and pragmatism As with everything people do, monads and macros are used with mixed motives, … Read more