Jay’s Realm

The good news is I think I grok monads. They make sense now. What was holding me back for so long was the syntactic sugar that masked what they were actually doing. It supplied an aura of magic which was really hard to cut through. Once I saw how the monad value was passed transparently in a sequence in a do construct it clicked.

The bad news is I still can’t get ghc for freebsd on amd64. I found some mailing list posts from mid/end of April on the topic. It looks like work is being done. It feels like it will be done quickly. But I hope I still have ambition to work in Haskell by the time that rolls around. It feels very much like a neat and powerful language with a lot of personality.

But I can actually do things in Python.

My mom sent me an email today and included a picture from where I grew up. I’m slightly bitter and jaded because of the isolation, but it really is a beautiful and magical place. For those who didn’t know, fifty percent of my english final was based on an essay about a place. I wrote about here and I lost only a single mark that I’m sure is from spelling or the like.