[wwweston]

> I have never thought "Gee, I wrote this with a monad. I deserve a back pat."

Another way of putting this doesn't have anything to do with how clever the developer thinks they are (or how serious they are now that they no longer think they're clever)...

It's "now you have two problems" -- the original problem you wanted to solve, and the problem of working with the tool/framework/paradigm you've chosen to solve it. So, great, you're doing object/design-pattern oriented development! And then you find this starts to lead you to a place where a significant portion of your overhead is sunk into solving problems that don't seem to have much to do with the original problem domain.

I don't know Haskell well enough to pick on it. I'd love to believe it escapes that kind of problem, but I think it's only somewhat less likely than beating entropy.