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Monads are not unreadable. When you finally get do-notation and realize that you can use the same idioms for (a) list comprehensions, (b) imperative-style progr

Monads are not unreadable. When you finally get do-notation and realize that you can use the same idioms for (a) list comprehensions, (b) imperative-style programming, and (c) error-handling and option-chaining, there's a "Wow" moment. However, we can give up on selling monads to the masses. The name alone... The concept of the monad is beautiful and awesome, but it's too different to succeed with the masses.

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SkyMarshal 15y ago
>However, we can give up on selling monads to the masses. The name alone... A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem? (for anyone not familiar with the in-joke: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3870088/a-monad-is-just-a-monoid-in-the-category-of-endofunctors-whats-the-problem http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3870088/a-monad-is-just-a...)