Re: Planet of Guix-related posts?

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Matt <matt@excalamus.com> writes:

>  ---- On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 10:21:51 -0500 zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote ----
>
>  > (On a side note between parenthesis, we should avoid to fall into the
>  > "Package Definition" tutorial fallacy; as explained here for monads
>  > https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuition-and-the-monad-tutorial-fallacy/.
>  > And I wrote one post about monad and another about Packaging. ;-)
>  > However, I think the official documentation has enough materials for
>  > starting to package. End of parenthesis.)
>
> If many people feel inclined to write their own packaging tutorial,
> it's probably an indication that the manual isn't sufficient.

The experience with monad tutorial suggests that people write them
because they learned something new and want to put their understanding
into words in the hopes that other people benefit from it.

There is an overabundance of monad tutorials out there.  This is not
evidence of the claim that existing explanations are somehow flawed.

-- 
Ricardo