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You've never been curious about something you don't know about, but don't immediately need?

• mokus 14y ago
  Whether any particular tutorial is good or not, it's almost automatic that people (especially in the Haskell community) question whether we needed /yet another/, because there are already so many and most of them are not that great. IMO there's nothing wrong with more, but the fact that there are so many out there seems to perpetuate the incorrect belief that it's something you need to learn to actually use Haskell. I suspect that the GP was addressing this belief, not saying "nobody should bother learning this stuff".
• qznc 14y ago
  In general the Haskell community seems way too obsessed about monads. I just checked the "official" tutorials [0]. I was happy to see they all introduce IO without talking about monads. However, the linked wiki page has a whole section about monads. In contrast, there nothing about concurrency or transactional memory, despite that fact that this is one of the strong parts of Haskell. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tutorials http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tutorials
  • papsosouid 14y ago
    >In general the Haskell community seems way too obsessed about monads You need to understand monads to do anything beyond trivial exercises. It is something that virtually every single person coming to haskell from another language is unfamiliar with. I don't see how a focus on such a fundamental aspect of the language is a bad thing.