Having briefly looked at Haskell recently, what would be a brief, succinct, practical explanation as to what a monad essentially is?
I have found most explanations I've come across to be fairly inaccessible and lacking in practical detail.
For a few days I've tried to wrap my head around the functional programming paradigm in Haskell. I've done this by reading tutorials and watching screencasts, but nothing really seems to stick.
Now, in learning various imperative/OO languages (like …
There is a lot of hype around Haskell, however, it is hard to get information on how it is used in the real world applications. What are the most popular projects / usages of Haskell and why it excels at solving …