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epolanski on July 27, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Functional Programming in OCaml

Just to say, Haskell doesn't need monads to sequence computations, in fact Haskell as a programming language (1989) is older than Moggi's seminal paper on monads applied to programming in 1993.

creata on July 28, 2021 [–]

True, but imo Haskell I/O was less than pretty before monadic IO came along: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17004448

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