Julie Moronuki is the author of the Leanpub book Finding Success (and Failure) in Haskell: Fall in love with applicative functors. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Julie about her background and her curious path to writing about the Haskell programming language, philosophy and linguistics and Heidegger, monads in programming versus monads in Leibniz, her book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about her experience as a an author.

This interview was recorded on June 13, 2019.

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This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.

William S. Vincent, Author of Django for Professionals: Production websites with Python & Django

In Leanpub's Frontmatter podcast, we interview authors and special guests about their lives &amp; careers, their areas of expertise and the issues of the moment, and their experiences as writers. Every episode is deeply researched and covers areas that are equally of human interest, general interest, and professional interest.