Functional Programming - Erik Meijer

Enjoying these lectures:

A journey into the world of Functional Programming with functional language purist and high priest of the lambda calculus, Dr. Erik Meijer.

lectures here

Functional

Here's a few articles from Slava Akhmechet (on www.defmacro.org) that i enjoyed reading:

• Functional Programming For The Rest of Us
• The Nature of Lisp
• Databases - A New Frontier

And there's more.

going up the abstraction ladder

The central idea behind functional programming is that of building new functions by composing existing ones. Monads move up a level of abstraction by hiding the plumbing necessary to compose functions whose parameters and return values are different. Monad transformers move up yet another level of abstraction by allowing monads to be combined so that the plumbing that each monad does is combined and abstracted away, but without having to write new code.
from: monads in clojure

And a some references of Monads tutorials:

• You could have invented Monads
• monads in clojure 1
• monads in clojure 2
• monads in clojure 3
• monads in clojure 4