How to replace procrastination by a list of parsing techniques

Here's a very nice Wadler's paper with quite simple ideas to get you through a way of parsing which I guess predates monads, and monadic parser combinators.

How to replace failure by a list of successes.

Seeing it after playing with SMUG (Common Lisp Monadic parser combinator lib), watching MJD's Higher Order Parsing techniques with perl, and re-reading his parsing chapter definitely helped a lot to make all that fuzzy knowledge settle a bit.

Unfortunatelly, I'm not using any parsing technique very often, but I like to read about all those crazy parsing techniques. (See META: Pragmatic parsing in Common Lisp for another one (inspired by Val Schorre's no-words-to-describe-how-enlightening-is-it META-II)).

Joining the monad party

Ok, so I won't try to explain what is a monad, or where is it used, mainly because I'm not sure I know the answers to these questions, but I'm just going to list some links that seemed to make sense (more or less) at some point. I think 'programmable semicolons' is a very nice way to put it.

- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/baastad.pdf
- http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html
- https://codon.com/refactoring-ruby-with-monads
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28139259/why-do-we-need-monads
- https://www.stephanboyer.com/post/9/monads-part-1-a-design-pattern
- http://blog.reverberate.org/2015/08/monads-demystified.html
- https://www.schoolofhaskell.com/school/advanced-haskell/functors-applicative-functors-and-monads
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44965/what-is-a-monad

Monads in CL/scheme
- https://www.lrde.epita.fr/dload/papers/newton.16.monad.report.pdf
- http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/lisp-snippets/tree/monads.lisp
- https://common-lisp.net/project/cl-monad-macros/monad-macros.htm
- http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dherman/browse/shared/notes/monads/monads-for-schemers.txt

Monads in Clojure
- https://github.com/clojure/algo.monads

Others
- http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/
- https://www.schoolofhaskell.com/school/advanced-haskell/functors-applicative-functors-and-monads
- http://www.valuedlessons.com/2008/01/monads-in-python-with-nice-syntax.html

Seem cool, but couldn't grasp it:
- http://www.eliza.ch/doc/wadler92essence_of_FP.pdf
- https://ncatlab.org/nlab/files/WadlerMonads.pdf

Meta, why there are sooo many monad tutorials:
- https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuition-and-the-monad-tutorial-fallacy/

Alan Kay interviews and more ideas

Recently, Alan Kay (you know, my 1st reference for maaany things) appeared in Code Mesh and Joe Armstrong (of Erlang fame) interviewed him. As always, lots of insights and some old concepts mixed with new ones. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOHn9TClXY . HN discussion here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13033299

Also here is a 2h+ long interview from 1990 that I think appeared recently on the internet.
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D9DC82D997454711A71B586E17D23119

More 'Kayisms', some thoughts, reflections and examples on how to store data that can last (as in be read) practically forever.
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_cuneiform.pdf . (related to http://worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlexandria/ )


And here there are a couple of other links I hadn't seen about him, the story of personal computing, and progress/critical thinking  in general.

• http://factordaily.com/alan-kay-apple-steve-jobs/
• http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan-kay/
• http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004001_power.pdf
• http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html