Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Don't fear the Monads

Dr. Brian Beckman, a Channel 9 celebrity, astrophysicist and senior software engineer thought it would be a very good idea to address the complexity of monads in an easy to understand way: a technical conversation at the whiteboard with yours truly for Channel 9.

Intro to FP and Monads in general and Haskell in particular. You'll have to remember high school algebra, tho :) He tries to explain this without going too much into the mathematical details:

Just think a monoid satisfies all the axioms of a group with the exception of having inverses.

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