title: What are the benefits of applicative parsing over monadic parsing?
body: <p>There seems to be a consensus that you should use Parsec as an applicative rather than a monad. What are the benefits of applicative parsing over monadic parsing?</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>style</li>
  <li>performance</li>
  <li>abstraction</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Is monadic parsing out?</p>