Pretty much if there is a slide with a title "Why not use a Monad?" then this is not the simple parts. I tend to wonder why more people do not talk about Eckel

Pretty much if there is a slide with a title "Why not use a Monad?" then this is not the simple parts. I tend to wonder why more people do not talk about Eckels book on Scala if they want a more basic intro to the language.