Monads for .NET developers

I have written an article for the Dutch developer magazine of SDN (Magazine 111). It is titled: “Monads voor de .NET-ontwikkelaar”.

In this post I will list some of the available resources on monads for .NET developers:

C# resources

Books:

• Tomas Petricek & Jon Skeet: Real World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C#, website
• Oliver Sturm: Functional Programming in C#: Classic Programming Techniques for Modern Projects, website

Web:

• Wes Dyer: The marvels of monads
• Mike Hadlow: Monads in C#–1. Introduction.
• Derick Bailey: Monads in C#: Which Part Is The Monad?
• Matthew Podwysocki: Functional .NET - LINQ or Language Integrated Monads?
• Tomas Petricek: Beyond the Monad fashion (I.): Writing idioms in LINQ
• Mauricio Scheffer: Refactoring to monadic C#
• Erik Meijer: The World According to LINQ

F# resources

Computation Expressions are addressed in most of the available F# books (Professional F# 2.0 does not): F# and functional programming

Web:

• Wiki: Computation Expressions
• Don Syme: Some Details on F# Computation Expressions
• Francois Vanderseypen : Categories, monads and F# for dummies
• Steffen Forkmann: Using monads in F# – Part I: The State Monad
• Brian McNamara : catamorphisms part seven
• Ivan Towlson : F# computation expressions for beginners, part 1: what’s the problem?
• Chance Coble: Why use Computation Workflows (aka Monads) in F#?
• Ryan Riley: A monad library for F# projects

Presentations

• Mike Hadlow: on Monads @ E-VAN 29 March 2011
• Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) at the Norwegian Developers Conference: “WTF is a Monad” (F# code)
• Erik Meijer: Fundamentalist Functional Programming & Chapter 8 - Functional Parsers
• Bart De Smet: LINQ, Take Two: Realizing the LINQ to Everything Dream
• Rick Minerich: Getting the MVVM Kicked Out of Your F#’n Monads

Some theory

• Wiki: monad
• Monad tutorials timeline
• Eugenio Moggi: Notions of Computation and Monads
• Real World Haskell: Chapter 14. Monads
• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!: A Fistful of Monads
• Ertugrul Söylemez: Understanding Haskell Monads

Code:

The source code of the article: MonadsVoorDeDotNetOntwikkelaar and MonadsVoorDeDotNetOntwikkelaar_english