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EPISODE · Dec 5, 2019 · 22 MIN

Are monads practical?

from The Eric Normand Podcast · host Eric Normand

For audio, video, and text transcripts: https://lispcast.com/are-monads-practical/

Bruno Ribeiro asked a great question about the practical uses of monads. Are they useful? Why are they used so much in Haskell? In this episode, we briefly go over the history of monads in Haskell and how they allow you to do imperative programming in a pure functional language.

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