#4619 MONADS (Wed, 2012 Feb 15)

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| |         | |   |/        /|,       /|   OKAY I'M USING A PURELY FUNCTIONAL 
| |     ..  | |   /        / /9      / |   LANGUAGE AND I WANT TO DO SOMETHING
| |  .      | |  /_______ / /9      /  |   THAT ACTUALLY DOES SOMETHING CRAZY 
| |_________| | |  ____ +| /9      /   |   LIKE I/O WHICH EITHER RETAINS STATE
|________++___|/|________|/9      /    |   OR HAS SIDE EFFECTS SO I'M GOING   
   ________________     ,9`      /   / |   TO LEARN THIS LANGUAGE WELL FOR TWO
  /  -/      /-   /|  ,9        /   /| |   MONTHS AND THEN STUDY THESE THREE  
 /______________ //|,9         /   / | |   BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT FOR FOUR      
|       ______  ||,9          /   /  | |   MONTHS AND THEN PONDER FOR ANOTHER 
|  -+  |_9366_| ||/          /   /|  | |   TWO MONTHS (WITH HEAVY BLOGGING)   
|_______________|/__________/   / |  | |   AND THEN I'LL SORT OF GET IT       
/////----------/|           |  /__|  | |__ AND MAKE AN ATTEMPT AT A SHITTY    
|o     o  \o|  \|           |  |  |  | |   IMPLEMENTATION BUT IT'LL HAVE      
|o    \|_  ||  o|______     |  |__|  | |__ TERRIBLE AND UNACCEPTABLE          
|o \_  |   ||  o|      |    |  |  |  | /   PERFORMANCE AND AFTER A WEEK OR SO 
|o /   |\  /|  o|      |    |  |  |__|/    OF CONCLUDING THAT THAT'S WHERE THE
|o             o|      |    |  |           PROBLEM IS I'LL SLOWLY FIX IT OVER 
|o-------------o|      |    |  |           SIX MONTHS WITH LOTS OF BUGS AND   
|o   /\/\      o|      |    |  |           HARD WORK AND FINALLY COME UP WITH 
|o  / o o|     o|      |    |  |           SOMETHING THAT WORKS RIGHT         
|o / \_+_/     o|      |    |  |                                              
|o |\     \    o|      |    |  |           OR, YOU KNOW, I COULD HAVE NOT USED
|o | |+ +-|    o|      |    |  |           A PURELY FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE IN THE
|o-------------o|      |    |  |           FUCKING FIRST PLACE                
|o     /|      o|      |    | /   m1a                                         
 \/|/|/ |/\/|/\/       |____|/             AND TYPED "PRINT"