Monads

[Mads Skagen]

Hi

I'v currently working on a school-project where I have
to describe the Haskell programming language.

I've been looking through Monads and especially the IO
monad, the Maybe monad and the list monad

My question is why are monads necessary in the
language ?

Is it not possible to construct the features provided
by Monads using basic functional constructs ?

What do I gain using Monads ?

Thank you very much.

Regards Skagen


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