On: Functors and Monads for People Who Have Read Too Many “Tutorials”

[pyrale]

There is no real focus on theory in the language itself, but a significant part of the community, indeed, enjoys it.

For balance, here's another common opinion about tutorials: http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/#eightfold-path-to-monad-sa...

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> Read the monad definitions.

> Use monads in real code.

> Don’t write monad-analogy tutorials.

In the end, the two opinions about learning monads coexist, and people have done fine following either way.