Comments on: Why monads matter

By: INF355

INF355 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:42:50 +0000

Les monads, c’est bien…

Pour une bonne raison d’utiliser les monads, vous pouvez lire cet article où j’expliquais comment le fait d’avoir choisi un type monadique plutôt qu’un simple Maybe augmente automatiquement les possibilités du programme. Nous…

By: Fritz

Fritz — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:24:28 +0000

Thanks for a nice example of how monadic thinking can be a valuable tool.

Have you seen Richard Bird’s approach to sudoku? He gave it as a Functional Pearl talk at the Portland ICFP (2006, I think); it was also written up as a JFP pearl, apparently in Volume 16, #6.

Hmm, sudoku is naturally array-oriented … there must be a good J solution that fits in one line! (Sorry, I just came here from your “J programming language” blog entry and couldn’t resist.) Nested arrrays, á là APL 2, would be better, if J has them.

By: armando

armando — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:23:28 +0000

If you want to try out something new in sudoku, try shendoku, using the sudoku rules but playing two people, one against the other, like battleshipps. They have a free version to download at http://www.shendoku.com/sample.pdf . Anything else they are bringing out or they are working on you can find at http://www.shendoku.com or at they´r blog http://www.shendoku.blogspot.com . Have fun, I am. I specially like one slogan I heard about Shendoku: SUDOKU is like masturbation (on your own)…. SHENDOKU is like sex (it takes two).

By: hanamaru

hanamaru — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:40:27 +0000

Now you can exhaustively test your code if you like: http://doorgod.org/sudoku/index-e.html

By: kowey

kowey — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:07:02 +0000

Nice post. In case you ever felt like writing some Haskell stuff in French, you might want to know about the nascent Francophone Haskell community. For more details, see http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Fr/Haskell and #haskell.fr on irc.freenode.net.