[Haskell-cafe] Re: Monads

Ben Franksen ben.franksen at online.de
Mon Dec 3 18:18:27 EST 2007


PR Stanley wrote:
> Does the list consider
>
http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Haskell/Understanding_monads&oldid=933545
> a reliable tutorial on monads and, if not, could you recommend an
> onlien alternative please?

I strongly recommend the original papers by Philip Wadler, especially this
one:

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/wadler95monads.html

IMHO it still beats almost everything that's been written lately, including
the wikibook chapter you asked about (which I personally don't like at
all).

My other standard recommendation is
http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html
but I'd read the above paper first.

Cheers
Ben



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