I was learning Haskell for last six months (part of my undergraduate studies).
It was (and is!) fun and challenging but I had hard time seeing any measurable profits from learning what are and how to use functors, monads etc.
Until recently when I was writing asynchronous communication framework in Python and I was searching for simple solution to sequence actions in this heavily callback-based environment.
Now everything looks so simple... (I am looking at you, monads!)
The bad part is that many people do not know what I am talking about when I try to describe them the design ;)
It was (and is!) fun and challenging but I had hard time seeing any measurable profits from learning what are and how to use functors, monads etc.
Until recently when I was writing asynchronous communication framework in Python and I was searching for simple solution to sequence actions in this heavily callback-based environment.
Now everything looks so simple... (I am looking at you, monads!)
The bad part is that many people do not know what I am talking about when I try to describe them the design ;)