There are a wide variety of intros, some too cutesy for my taste, many with
other qualities that put me off or leave me confused. The work of sigfpe
stood out as exceptionally helpful, in contrast. That's my experience.
On Apr 8, 2011 9:00 PM, "Don Guinn" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I must confess that the first paragraph had a sentence in the intro link
> turned me off - "You also can't set a variable to something and then set
it
> to something else later." What??? What is a variable if you can't change
its
> value? If you can't change its value then it's not a variable.
>
> I haven't followed the discussion on the concept of a monad and I would
like
> to understand its significance, but the intro is just too cutesy for me.
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