Somewhere, somebody is going to hate me for saying this, but if I were to try to explain monads to a Java programmer unfamiliar with functional programming, I would say: "Monad is a design pattern ...

This is part two of a two-part series [see linuxjournal.com/article/9096 for part one]. In this article, I build upon the concept of a parse pipeline with the State ...

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Haskell is the new kid on the block of programming languages. It too follows the computing paradigm called ‘Functional Programming’ i.e. approach a problem in terms of what the solution should look ...