This is an extension of my comment at < http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144481 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144481 > -- it was so well received tha

This is an extension of my comment at < http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144481 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144481 > -- it was so well received that I decided to write up a proper article. There's something about the word "monad" that just scares the hell out of people, but hopefully approaching monads from a more practical and less mathematical standpoint will make grasping them easier. They're really not that complicated.