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> What on earth makes you convinced that a monad can be implemented in Excel True monads can't even be implemented in Haskell. But if we're being practical, yo
by epgui 3y ago
> What on earth makes you convinced that a monad can be implemented in Excel
True monads can't even be implemented in Haskell. But if we're being practical, you can totally implement monad-like things in Excel. It's almost impossible not to implement monad-like things when building anything non-trivial.
- kfixjviv 3y agoI don't think making this claim is helpful. Monads aren't found everywhere in code. Solving a problem which could be solved by monads doesn't automatically lead to code that works in a monad-like way, not in any meaningful sense.
- epgui 3y ago> Monads aren't found everywhere in code. I completely disagree... The distinction is simply that they're usually ad-hoc and not formalized, mainly because the author didn't know what they were writing and was reinventing the wheel.