Samuel
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monads are never beating the monoid in the category of endofunctors allegations
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v buckenhammy intro to programming class was taught by Philip Wadler
2 1 6Samuelwoah cool!
1 3v buckenhamwe got taught Haskell first semester, under the theory that exposure to imperative programming would ruin us for functional programming (i think there's something to this, actually)
1 3v buckenhami still couldn't convincingly explain what a monad is, though (or a monoid, or a category of endofunctors)
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Micah McCurdyWould you like a category theorist to be your friend? I don't know any haskell tho
Hillel is on vacationI hada Dave McQueen for an intro to FP class. It was *awful*
Wes Souzawow you went there