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Date: | 2005-07-19 (16:53) |
From: | james woodyatt <jhw@w...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] (Mostly) Functional Design? |
On 19 Jul 2005, at 02:35, Robert Morelli wrote: > However, my purpose was to explain monads in > a way that I think is completely intuitive, simple, and sensible from > an ordinary programmer's point of view. I abandoned the paper several > years ago, but perhaps it's worth completing it. Yes, well... I would count that as a point in favor of your argument that the community "is also inept at practical documentation and advocacy." I think a really good introduction to monads for the practitioner, as distinct from the mathematician, would be a sign of growing aptitude for practical documentation and advocacy. They're kinda hard to use in Ocaml, which my preferred functional language, so I don't think it would be a good idea for me to try to write such a thing. It would be nice if somebody did. -- j h woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com> markets are only free to the people who own them.