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It IS really nice to see something on those mysterious monads not written in haskell. I got hung up early into the article though, where the author says somethi
by tsewlliw 14y ago
It IS really nice to see something on those mysterious monads not written in haskell. I got hung up early into the article though, where the author says something to the effect of "the monad hides the complexity", and that seemed like a silly goal. I need to make another pass at it.
- chc 14y agoHiding complexity is almost the whole point of most programming languages and a big reason why most of the popular library and frameworks exist. Computer programs are fiendishly complex things, and they're only getting more so as time goes on (now we have several independent processors doing complex things simultaneously in the service of even larger complex things). A lot of software is so big that even most of its components are too much to fit in your head at once. So I think hiding complexity is a pretty sensible goal.