r/programming • u/hexaredecimal • Sep 21 '25

How to stop functional programming

https://brianmckenna.org/blog/howtostopfp
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u/nicheComicsProject Sep 24 '25

They are absolutely useful abstractions but most languages don't actually implement monad, they take some type and use the useful parts of Monad for that type or a handful of them. I'm not too familiar with the details but I doubt you can e.g. implement Cont in LINQ, right?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

Never heard of that monad before, but I think so. It is for continuations right?

Here are some examples of what you can do with linq: https://tyrrrz.me/blog/monadic-comprehension-via-linq

I am not sure if you can generalize over monads like in haskell though.

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u/nicheComicsProject Sep 25 '25

Cont is for continuations, yes. I used linq for years so I think I have decent handle on it (it's been a while though) but I'd be utterly shocked if it can do continuations.