Tag Archives: Monads

This post accompanies this video and won’t make too much sense without it Last month I gave a talk at the Curry On conference, a new conference co-located with the academic, programming language conference, ECOOP. Curry On is intended to bridge the gap between academia. My academic interests do not include programming languages, which I view as the sub-discipline of computer ...

What is a monad?: A monad is a design pattern concept used in mostly functional programming languages like lisp or in the modern world clojure or scala. (I would in fact copy a few things from scala.) Now why is it becoming important in java? Because java has got its new lambda feature from version 8. Lambda or closure is ...