Nah, like any bad analogy, it can be stretched :) Once you've moved past the "lies-to-children[1]" version, you can ascend to the real meat of the burrito: http

Nah, like any bad analogy, it can be stretched :) Once you've moved past the "lies-to-children[1]" version, you can ascend to the real meat of the burrito: https://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html https://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html And once you've fully grokked burritos in terms of monads, you can finally reach that zen level where you solve your problems without even a single line of code (because you've started working at the burrito shop instead: http://chrisdone.com/posts/monads-are-burritos http://chrisdone.com/posts/monads-are-burritos ). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children