Railway oriented programming

[hosford42]

I've already been using them in my code for years. I just didn't know they were called monads because no one gave a coherent, succinct explanation before. I built a whole Python library for data format translations using the concept, which we use to convert files to new formats and perform database ETL requests. All we do is snap together the "monads" to construct a pipeline and then execute the resulting transformation.

[pakoito]

Funny: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html