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11.5.09

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

Several folk have pointed me at this, since Haskell and myself get a mention. I'm delighted to learn that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors"---anyone know where I can find a good tutorial?

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  1. http://blog.sigfpe.com/2008/11/from-monoids-to-monads.html

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  2. Or this one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fohXBj2UEI

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  3. Sorry - I can point you to about twenty BAD tutorials, but no good ones.

    Just kidding, #haskell, please don't ban me!

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  4. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3261729/monad-in-non-programming-terms

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