About once a week, I think "I really ought to verify that Haskell is trivial." But because it almost certainly is, it's worth 15 mins max.
It keeps nagging at me, though, so I keep getting sucked in to wasting another 15 minutes without actually finding out.
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Monads do seem to be the main “category theory” thing. I think they are probably dumb as a programming language thing, but not sure.
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monads come out naturally; see JavaScript's Promise API which is almost exactly like "the IO monad". why dumb?
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