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Monads (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Naich@lemmings.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So it's magic. Gotcha.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Haskell's runtime system is indeed magic, the fact it uses monads is just a consequence of monads being useful for this application. Monads themselves are not too complicated.