Incorporating imperative features into a purely functional language has become an active area of research within the functional programming community [10, 7, 12]. One of the techniques gaining widespread acceptance as a model for imperative functional programming is monads [13, 9]. The purpose of this technical report is to give a category theoretic introduction to monads, and to explore the relationship to what functional programmers term a monad. Keywords: Monads; Category theory; Kleisli...