Philip Wadler published this paper[1] titled 'Monads for functional programming' that serves as a good introduction on the subject and is very accessible. It is

Philip Wadler published this paper[1] titled 'Monads for functional programming' that serves as a good introduction on the subject and is very accessible. It is enumerated through with concrete examples such as 'error handling' using Monads and maintaining 'state' via the State Monad. [1]: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/baastad.pdf http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/ba...