A very good introduction to monads for the programmer, in my opinion, is
"Monads for functional programming", by Philip Wadler

  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/baastad.pdf

If one wish to stay in OCaml country, there is a blog post by Brian Hurt :

  http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/a-monad-tutorial-for-ocaml/


On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>
 wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Can you recommend papers on monadic programming?
> > Or how did you mastered it?
>
> "Mastered" it might be too strong a word... :-)  Anyway, my recommendation
> is to simply start using it and let practice do its thing.  (In my case
> practice came from developing Ocsigen/Eliom apps).
>
> As for books or tutorials, I would suggest taking a look at material for
> learning Haskell.  Recently, some well-publicised Haskell books targeted
> at beginners have come out [1,2].  No introduction to Haskell is really
> complete without also discussing monads. (Reading Haskell is fairly
> straightforward for those familiar with Ocaml, btw).
>
> Cheers,
> Dario Teixeira
>
> [1] http://book.realworldhaskell.org/
> [2] http://learnyouahaskell.com/
>
>
>
>
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