I hate to say this sort of, because it is going to sound snobby, and I do not believe in being snobby. But the undeniable truth is, there's a fraction of the wo

I hate to say this sort of, because it is going to sound snobby, and I do not believe in being snobby. But the undeniable truth is, there's a fraction of the world's population of programmers who simply do not have the particular mental traits that would allow them to ever be completely comfortable and confident with a concept as abstract as monad. Some people will call me Satan now, and others will jump on what I said and say, "Hell yeah, the world is full of dumb blub programmers." But both those groups are misunderstanding me. I think a programmer who cannot understand this level of abstraction can still do plenty of valuable things as a programmer. I would not call them dumb. They may be -- and many are -- fabulously creative, driven, capable and highly productive. There's a certain type of programmer who is more comfortable with abstraction and whose brain is more wired to deal with these amorphous, unnamed concepts. The same kind of brain wiring is needed to go far with mathematics. But as FP becomes more prominent, this is going to become a dividing issue. Some will not make the transition, or will do so only partially. I think it's great to try to communicate better where possible, but even the best communication is not going to completely erase the issue.