Python-based monads essay (Re: Assignment versus binding)
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Oct 13 18:55:41 EDT 2016
Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> This suggests even the promoters of functional programming intuitively
> prefer imperative programming, but that's ok as long as it's all
> functional under the hood.
You make it sound like functional programmers like functional
programming because it gives them a warm fuzzy feeling. I don't
think that's true -- there are specific reasons they like
it, and those reason still apply when I/O is expressed using
a monadic structure.
Read Part 2 - I have something to say about that at the end.
--
Greg
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