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> I recommend you let go of your misconceptions and do some learning Thank you for the advice! Monads seem to have some kind of smugness creation field. I kno

by olavk 9y ago

> I recommend you let go of your misconceptions and do some learning Thank you for the advice! Monads seem to have some kind of smugness creation field. I know there are other monads beside State and IO, I was specifically referencing the argument in the linked article which was about using monads for mutable state, basically turning the code into imperative style.

bad_user 9y ago
That wasn’t smugness. I only replied to you because those were my thoughts from 5 years ago. And I was wrong. And yes, it’s a little troubling that such awesome concepts are not penetrating the mainstream, being so misunderstood. I blame the available leaning resources. It took the GC 30 years after invention to become mainstream. Functional programming, actual functional programming, apparently takes longer than that.
- AnimalMuppet 9y ago
  > That wasn’t smugness. Maybe not. It was still condescending, though...