For now I'm writing tidbits about computer programming, the plan is to actually blog at some point in time.

Monday, December 17, 2007

A link to Yet Another Monads Tutorial

A post with a layman's discussion to Monads (it starts as) with a bunch of information and even some comedy.

Understanding monads in one minute

Don't forget to check Tackling the awkward squad: monadic input/output, concurrency, exceptions, and foreign-language calls in Haskell as well.

Monday, December 03, 2007

Edsgar W. Dijkstra about Basic ...

Edsgar W. Dijkstra once said "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

Is a Java CS student any better here ?