Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello jerzy,
Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 8:23:04 PM, you wrote:
Please, tell him first about random streams, which he can handle without
IO. Or, about ergodic functions (hashing contraptions which transform ANY
parameter into something unrecognizable). When he says : "I know all that",
THEN hurt him badly with monads.
i think that for someone coming from imperative programming teeling
about IO monad is the easiest way. and then he will learn how to do it
FP way
I came from a imperative programming background. I didn't feel like this
help me at all back then. At least in the beginning you want to detach
yourself from an imperative style, not try to simulate it with some
weird structure that you don't really understand.
More generally I really wish IO hadn't been the first Monad I played
with. It's so close to a Functor, yet in my mind Functors were simple,
just structures that could be mapped, and Monads were these mysterious
things that allowed you to get away with side effects and that once you
were inside you could never get out.
Jorge
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