After I understood monads, I didn't write a short blog post about how simple they are. In fact, I took the opposite approach and am writing a ~500 page book about them :).
In seriousness, there's a lot that goes into appreciating a concept like a monad, especially if you want to combine the FP understanding with a rigorous mathematical understanding (monoid in a category of endofunctors approach). My new book is coming out next year with No Starch Press, and my goal is to give programmers a serious but doable introduction to abstract algebra, in the case that they care about this kind of stuff. Ping me if you want to read some early chapters and give feedback! [email protected]
In seriousness, there's a lot that goes into appreciating a concept like a monad, especially if you want to combine the FP understanding with a rigorous mathematical understanding (monoid in a category of endofunctors approach). My new book is coming out next year with No Starch Press, and my goal is to give programmers a serious but doable introduction to abstract algebra, in the case that they care about this kind of stuff. Ping me if you want to read some early chapters and give feedback! [email protected]