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Effects as Capabilities

When writing software, we currently seem to have to choose between an imperative style - easy to read and write, hard to reason about - and a monadic style - hard to read and write, easy to reason about.This talk is about being greedy and getting the best of both worlds, because we deserve it.

Nicolas Rinaudo
Nicolas writes code for JPMorgan, where we use Scala to make some very complicated things seem very simple.
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When writing software, we currently seem to have to choose between an imperative style - easy to read and write, hard to reason about - and a monadic style - hard to read and write, easy to reason about.

This talk is about being greedy and getting the best of both worlds, because we deserve it.

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