I feel like this article would be much more approachable if it didn't assume readers already know Ocaml and Haskell and their module system
It's okay not to know things
Death to type classes
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#12even for someone moderately interested in FP, this one goes above my head and the only take-away I can get from it is "maybe use ocaml instead of haskell"
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It's okay not to know things
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#14I feel like this article would be much more approachable if it didn't assume readers already know Ocaml and Haskell and their module system
Yeah, it’s better to not assume anything and be stuck in the basics forever, right?
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#15Delightfully weird and niche article.
And I wouldn't be surprised if there were more retired left handed surgeons in their 50s living in rural Switzerland than people who understand what he's talking about.
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"A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors"
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#17if err !== nil { return err }
How does this compose iterators?
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#18I feel like this article would be much more approachable if it didn't assume readers already know Ocaml and Haskell and their module system
Indeed so, but that would require a few months worth of work from the reader, unfortunately. (I have a t-shirt with a lambda in a circle, reminiscent of the anarchist emblem, and words "no class, no state". It's definitely possible to explain to a passer-by who never studied FP what it refers to, but not in such a way that the joke remained funny. Possibly the same deal is with the bumper sticker saying "my other car…
> a lambda in a circle
How often do people think you're a Half-Life fan instead?
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"Hello I would like x<-[1,2..] apples please"
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There is a really interesting interview with Simon Peyton-Jones referenced on HN yesterday.He talks a lot about why Haskell came about, and some of the thinking behind the design choices that were made.