Do You Want A Print Statement With That Monad

Functional programmers learning imperative languages: "Wait, I can just... print things? Without wrapping everything in an IO monad? This is amazing!"

Imperative programmers learning functional languages: "So you're telling me I need to understand category theory just to debug with console.log? I studied computer science, not mathematics from the 1940s."

The beautiful irony here is that the functional dev discovers the joy of side effects and mutable state like a kid in a candy store, while the imperative dev realizes that their trusty println() requires understanding functors, applicatives, and monadic composition. One person's "finally, simplicity!" is another person's existential crisis.

Pro tip: If someone starts explaining monads using burrito analogies, just nod and go back to your print statements. You'll be fine.