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This article is the origin of the infamous joke about Haskell: > Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wa
by georgewsinger 10y ago
This article is the origin of the infamous joke about Haskell:
> Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"
- radicality 10y agoHehe, that's actually how I ended up on this article, trying to understand what is meant by that statement in more detail. I found that apparently the original is from here [0]. :) [0] https://books.google.com/books?id=gfI-BAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA138&dq=All%20told%2C%20a%20monad%20in%20X%20is%20just%20a%20monoid&pg=PA138#v=onepage&q=All%20told,%20a%20monad%20in%20X%20is%20just%20a%20monoid&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=gfI-BAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA138&dq=...