Here's a historical overview of monad tutorials since Phil Wadler's original observation that monads can be implemented in Haskell and become extremely useful.
When I wrote this, I originally wanted to do a real history, with an analysis of how people have tried to teach monads over the years, but I guess this is about all I have time for. Dates, authors and blurbs. Corrections/additions always welcome! As you can tell, I have not read them all.
Edit 2007-08-17: I have updated and moved this timeline to Haskellwiki. This might be useful when some future Haskell archeologist tries to figure out the precise "ah-ha!" moment when every single programmer in the world 'got' monads.
Monads in Perl
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Keep them coming, folks! I might not update the page for a while because I want to avoid bothering people's RSS aggregrators. In fact, maybe it's worthwhile to move this page to Haskellwiki...
ReplyDeleteAnother very pragmatic tutorial:
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Also http://www.patryshev.com/monad/m-intro.html
ReplyDeleteJust jotting down my notes from Wayback Machine (thanks andrey)
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2006-07 Crash Monad Tutorial Vlad Patryshev
"This crash course starts with an easy introduction to categories and functors, then we define a monad..."
incomplete but working entry level tutorial:
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Thanks! I don't think it really counts, but if you feel it does, feel free to chase down the history and update the wiki :-)
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