# Why are monads important

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**Category:** Learning\
**Created:** [November 23, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/why-are-monads-important/8868 "2021-11-23T02:00:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 3:22am UTC](https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/why-are-monads-important/8868/2 "2021-11-23T03:22:02Z")

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Googling around for tutorials and explainers on monads you’re sure to find an embarrassment of riches. But, for a tutorial explanation that has connection with the OCalm community, and which I personally found very illuminating, I’d recommend the [Std (monads.Monads.Std)](http://binaryanalysisplatform.github.io/bap/api/odoc/monads/Monads/Std/index.html#intro) tutorial (previously announced in the post [[ANN] Monads - the missing monad transformers library](https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-monads-the-missing-monad-transformers-library/830)).

A tl;dr of the point of view presented in that tutorial is: monads are important because they let you parameterize your computational model in a pretty elegant way.

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