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It's probably because every blog post that contains the word "monad" becomes incomprehensible to most people that don't already know what they are. See also: c
by recursive 12y ago
It's probably because every blog post that contains the word "monad" becomes incomprehensible to most people that don't already know what they are.
See also: curse of the monad
- the_af 12y agoThis is not true. I learned about monads by reading websites about monads before I knew what they were. What other way is there to learn new things?
- innguest 12y agoI think the curse alludes to the fact that no one tutorial does a good job at explaining monads, or they rarely do. It's true for me as it took me several tutorials to get the intuition for it and be able to revisit category theory tutorials (which at first seemed unwilling to give examples).
- GFischer 12y agoI had to look it up: http://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/5207-crockford-on-monads-and-gonads.html http://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/5207-crockf... "In addition to it begin useful, it is also cursed and the curse of the monad is that once you get the epiphany, once you understand - "oh that's what it is" - you lose the ability to explain it to anybody."