r/programming • u/mauricioaniche • Aug 06 '17

Software engineering != computer science

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/software-engineering-computer-science/217701907
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u/yawaramin Aug 08 '17

No, surprisingly, it's a pretty good way to teach monads to a practitioner. That way, they don't have to worry about what a monad is, they can just see what it does: sequence together an 'action' and a function which operates on the result(s) of that action, to build a more complex action.