So, You Want To Understand Monads?

An intuitive explanation of an unnecessarily perplexing functional programming concept

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I was just reading an article in which a poor soul was trying really hard to explain to the reader what a monad is and failing miserably because he himself did not truly understand it. Out of mostly a desire to help him, I thought it might make sense to write an…