Want to hear some serious nerd bullshit? Monads, the hardest concept in all of computer science for anyone to understand are just the things between pipes monad | monad | monad | monad | no --really "But they're pipes with types!" "Oh, that's always a mess." "I KNOW!!!"
Please tell me where these two facts contradict. I have taught what monad means, comprehensively, without compromise, to hundreds of people. Not once did I labour with inappropriate, inaccurate, counter-productive, deflective metaphors such as "just pipes." What contradiction?
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If monads were that easy to grok then surely it wouldn't be mistaken with a pipe metaphor. If it can be 'mistaken' with pipe metaphor everyone can grok, then is it really that simple?
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Once you have the class of objects, you can describe much more complex relationships than UNIX pipes allow.
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