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For me, the hardest part of understanding monads was convincing myself that the super-simple thing I just thought I'd understood was, in fact, correct, given th
by yamtaddle 4y ago
For me, the hardest part of understanding monads was convincing myself that the super-simple thing I just thought I'd understood was, in fact, correct, given the hype about how difficult they are to understand (and, indeed, a lot of the tutorials are weirdly-terrible)
Similar story for pointers, actually. And recursion.
- LudwigNagasena 4y ago"A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"
- trafnar 4y agoI distinctly remembering this happening when I was learning to program and learned what a "function" was. My brain was telling me it must be some other more complicated thing.