Tikhon Jelvis

I’m a programmer with a background in functional programming and programming languages. I’m applying ideas from these fields to operations research at Target—we’re developing a framework for expressing and solving large-scale stochastic optimization problems.

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Haskell, Monads and Purity

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I believe the notion that Haskell uses “monads” to enforce purity is rather misleading. It has certainly caused quite a bit of confusion! It’s very much like saying we use “rings to do arithmetic”. We don’t! We use numbers, which just happen to form a ring with arithmetic operations. The important idea is the number …