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MONADS IN THE REALM OF OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

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A monad is a particular construction that emerges in the branch of mathematics called category theory. Despite category theory being one of the most abstract field in mathematics, monads are heavily used in functional programming as a design pattern that allows, for example, to manage side-effects. Why should such a powerful design pattern be used only in functional programming languages? Is it possible to apply it also in an Object Oriented paradigm?

In this talk we will try to answer these questions, exploring in parallel the notion of monad in category theory, in functional programming and in object oriented programming, with the help of various examples taken from all the three different worlds.

hectorip commented Jul 18, 2022

Did you end up giving this talk? I would like to watch it or read the presentation. Thanks in advance!

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marcosh commented Jul 20, 2022

@hectorip this talk never saw the light, in the end. I don't even remember if I ever submitted it to a conference...

hectorip commented Jul 20, 2022 via email

It would be great to watch a talk talking about this. Hope you could present it somewhere. I also have a small YT channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMAMBNg2JIJznIWATvDXiKg), mostly for Spanish speakers, but I would appreciate greatly if you want to present this talk there.

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marcosh commented Jul 25, 2022

Thanks for the offer. That would be great, but I'm currently under a quite heavy load at work (and home) and I won't have time to prepare decently in the near future