> So monads are from functional programming, right? kinda. they are needed where pure functional and lazy evaluation converge in a pure, lazy language, you c

> So monads are from functional programming, right? kinda. they are needed where pure functional and lazy evaluation converge in a pure, lazy language, you compute things based on dataflow but what is the dataflow of a keystroke from the keyboard? you need an abstraction to get stuff like this into a pure, lazy programming environment that's all monads are...abstractions to solve a problem