http://lukewassink.com/tags/functional-programming/Recent content in Functional Programming on Luke WassinkHugoen-usSun, 06 Sep 2026 15:33:45 -0400http://lukewassink.com/posts/categories-to-types/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:33:45 -0400http://lukewassink.com/posts/categories-to-types/<h2 id="who-is-this-for"> Who is this for? <a class="heading-link" href="#who-is-this-for"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>At this point, there are, by conservative estimate, 80,000 blog posts and Youtube videos that explain how monads fit into functional programming. It seems to be mandated by federal law that 99% of them begin by reassuring you that, unlike all the other explanations out there, <em>this explanation</em> won&rsquo;t use any fancy math or require any knowledge of category theory. This blog post belongs to the remaining 1%.</p>