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/