> If one wants to learn what the Monad abstraction is, then one by definition will have to learn some category theory!
Actually, I always thought people were referring to Doug Crockford's talk about monads where he makes an offhand analogy to burritos at the beginning. In that talk the analogy has absolutely nothing to do with the 45 minutes of slides he presents, so it always struck me as weird. I had no idea bloggers had actually used a burrito analogy to explain monads-- I now realize he was making an allusion to that.
At any rate, in his talk he explicitly avoids both category theory and type theory in an attempt to explain monads to Javascript programmers for practical programming purposes.
Actually, I always thought people were referring to Doug Crockford's talk about monads where he makes an offhand analogy to burritos at the beginning. In that talk the analogy has absolutely nothing to do with the 45 minutes of slides he presents, so it always struck me as weird. I had no idea bloggers had actually used a burrito analogy to explain monads-- I now realize he was making an allusion to that.
At any rate, in his talk he explicitly avoids both category theory and type theory in an attempt to explain monads to Javascript programmers for practical programming purposes.