Monads in Elixir

This talk is so far the best at explaining what Monads are for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1jYlPtkrqQ (Tom Stuart: Refactoring Ruby with Monads)

Philip Wadler's paper Monads for functional programming is the first thing I read that made any sense. FYI this is the horse's mouth.

I've seen the same video before i knew what a monad was, it helped me in understanding the use case of monad and ultimately monad. Monad is just a generalization of that particular use case. Some resources that helped me in understanding monads

1. Brian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhuHCtR3xq8&feature=share

2. Functors, Applicatives, And Monads In Pictures - http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_...

3. Three Useful Monads - http://adit.io/posts/2013-06-10-three-useful-monads.html

So its been not just one resource but multiple resource before it hit me that it was such a simple concept. So i would suggest to go over them (in order) and also look at other resources (mentioned by others).

OMG, the famous Abbot and Costello "Who's on First" skit is replayed in that vimeo talk (from NDC) about Monads. Love it.

But it's a good video, thanks.

Yes, in writing ruby during my day job, I often have conflicting feelings about dynamic typing. The other advantage would be being able to do real static analysis, I would love that.