Monads in C# – 1. Introduction

Here’s the complete series: 1. Introduction. 2. What’s the point?I’ve foolishly volunteered to give a talk at DDD9 on the 29th January: ‘Monads! What are they, and why should I care?’: “Or: How to bend Linq syntax to your will.These days, monads are the "celebrities of programming language theory". But they also inspire fear in the hearts of lowly imperative programmers like myself. However they