See here: http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/recipe-part2/ http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/recipe-part2/ I suspect that one could get through the e

See here: http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/recipe-part2/ http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/recipe-part2/ I suspect that one could get through the entire thing, handily grasp all of it, and be ready to apply what was learned in practice without ever realizing this had anything to do with the dreaded M-word. On a somewhat related note, I'm impressed by how Microsoft has their entire developer community comfortably using a few basic monads without even realizing it. I've even had some success with hijacking it. The terms they chose are explicitly coupled to the idea of querying, but I've been able to produce some implementations of .NET's version of the pattern that still produce good and readable results when you use the LINQ query syntax with them. I wouldn't say it's a perfect renaming of all the concepts, but if the goal is to make the concept intuitive enough for most users to tackle without fears then damn if it isn't an impressive 90% solution.