Tejas Dinkar
Monads you already use (without knowing it)
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Tejas started his career at ThoughtWorks, where he picked up an unhealthy taste for all things agile. He joined C42 Engineering as a Senior Developer, and later as the CEO of its services division.
Tejas is really passionate about open source software - he has worked on multiple projects include KDE and the Sublime Ruby plugin, and has released multiple gems including secure, and musterb. He has given talks at multiple open source conferences, such as RubyConf India.
Tejas also has been on the organizing team of various conferences includingFOSS.in and RubyConf India. Tejas is a languages geek, and will try any programming language once.
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Monads you already use (without knowing it)
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Monads are a little bit like Quantum Physics: If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
Monads are very useful for chaining computation together, in a simple way. The best explanation I've heard for them so far is that they are `programmable semicolons'.
In this session, I'll describe a few patterns that are solved by monads in some FP languages, and how you are already using them.
Some monads I plan to cover:
* Maybe Monad (being the easiest to explain)
* List monad, and how it is used to model non-determinism
* The state monad
* The IO monad
And maybe a few others
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