monads in A Sentence

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    Monad in plain English?

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    Don't try to read all the monad tutorials with funny metaphors.

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    Also, there are many concepts(like the Monad concept) that you should eventually learn.

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    Once you understand Monads, I think you have made the transition from a beginner haskell programmer to an intermediate haskeller.

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    ST Monad: lets you write code with a mutable state that runs very quickly, while still remaining pure outside the monad.

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    This will be easier than learning Monads the first time, as your brain will be used to dealing with the level of abstraction involved.

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    The first thing I would recommend(if you haven't already learnt them from learning Monads) is the various types of Monads, such as Reader, Writer and State.

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    In contrast, ascension is a state of doing, of actively drawing down more of the light of the soul and Monad into the physical body.

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    In particular, Chapter 8("Functional Parsers") provides the real groundwork you need to start dealing with Monads, and I think is by far the best place to start, followed by All About Monads.

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    Finally, the Principle or Law of Continuity is actually a principle that Leibniz takes from his work in mathematics and applies to the infinite hierarchy of Monads in the world and to the quality of their perceptions;

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    Another good learning resource(probably on the intermediate level), which has helped me a lot and hasn't been mentioned in the other answers as far as I can see, is Brent Yorgey's Typeclassopedia, which can be found in The Monad Reader(Issue 13).

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    This led me back to entelechies, and from the material to the formal, and at last brought me to understand, after many corrections and forward steps in my thinking, that Monads or simple substances are the only true substances and that material things are only phenomena, though well founded and well connected.

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    Leibniz is not as clear as one would like him to be, for at this point in his career it is possible to read him as seeing that something is a substance so long as it has a soul or a substantial form, whereas later in his career it seems more clearly to be the case that the only substances are souls or soul-like entities, the Monads.

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