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Much Ado About Monads – State Edition
Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to be a technical reviewer of a number of books including Chris Smith’s Programming F# book. During my recent trips, I had the chance to sit down and read through the book once again, and in particular Chapter 10 on Computation Expressions (aka Monads). A section worth noting in here is the use of the State Monad in order to create a library for web scripting. In the past, I’ve had a series on Much Ado About Monads where I look at the basic Monads such as Maybe and List, but this time, let’s look at what we can do with the State Monad.
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Going Hybrid - Implementing a Shopping Cart in F#
One persistent question that keeps coming up to me is how to merge functional programming techniques with object oriented techniques that many are used to. My usual reply is to talk about how functional programming affects your code, programming in the big, programming in the medium and programming in the small. What I mean by those terms is: