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Don't think it's practical/good to make people learn >>=, <$>, <*>, <|, <|* to decode JSON. Alternative pragmatism:

Why isn’t it good? Programmers, of all ppl, should pride themselves on learning. Who’s helped by refusal to learn?

Learning happens best in flow state, where challenge and ability are balanced. Five operators is too steep a learning curve.

Hmm, then JSON decoding in probably not a good example for learning… ?

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Exactly. It's too trivial a use case to confront developers with this steep a curve.

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Is this the

talk you mentioned in Functioning as a Functionalist? destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundari

yes

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