Odersky is repeatedly wrong on this subject and specifically for the claim that you quote, the only response is simply "not true."
On 24/06/12 15:31, Jonathan Geddes wrote: > Cafe, > > I was watching a panel on languages[0] recently and Martin Odersky (the > creator of Scala) said something about Monads: > > "What's wrong with Monads is that if you go into a Monad you have to change > your whole syntax from scratch. Every single line of your program changes > if you get it in or out of a Monad. They're not polymorphic so it's really > the old days of Pascal. A monomorphic type system that says 'well that's > all I do' ... there's no way to abstract over things. " [0, 53:45] > > Thoughts? > > --J Arthur > > [0] - http://css.dzone.com/articles/you-can-write-large-programs > > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe -- Tony Morris http://tmorris.net/
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