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About the Book
Monads are key to unlocking many powerful patterns in functional programming. Alas, many developers struggle at first with the concept and the applications of monads. This books provides a full dive into the subject, including thorough explanations of adjacent concepts such as functors, monad transformers, final tagless, or extensible effects.
About the Author
Alejandro Serrano Mena is a passionate of formal methods and functional programming in software development, especially using Kotlin and Haskell as languages. He works as researcher in the Kotlin Language Evolution team at JetBrains and helps co-maintaining the Arrow library. He enjoys not only using and improving those tools, but also spreading the word, regularly gives talks in conferences and meetups. For quite some time Alejandro was an academic, working on the area of compilers and type systems for functional languages. His PhD thesis versed over error messages, and he's been involved in efforts like improving GHC's support for impredicativity. He is the author of Practical Haskell, the Book of Monads, Haskell (Almost) Standard Libraries, and Functional Programming Ideas for the Curious Kotliner.