This is a good explanation, for experienced programmers.
In real life, you would have lost the 5 year old already at:
" Wouldn't programming be easy if we only deal with "simple" values?
You know: integers, strings, booleans... "
No. The 5 year old doesn't know about even things like "strings" or "booleans", and even "integer" would be an unfamiliar word for most of them.
I challenge you to explain a Monad to an actual 5 year old. :-) Then write it down. It would be very interesting how it would turn out.
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This is a good explanation, for experienced programmers.
In real life, you would have lost the 5 year old already at:
"
Wouldn't programming be easy if we only deal with "simple" values?
You know: integers, strings, booleans...
"
No. The 5 year old doesn't know about even things like "strings" or "booleans", and even "integer" would be an unfamiliar word for most of them.
I challenge you to explain a Monad to an actual 5 year old. :-)
Then write it down. It would be very interesting how it would turn out.