I dunno, so much of the IO Monad is specific to Haskell and lazy evaluation. Generally I think of it as Haskell's quirky way of handling the real world in a pur

I dunno, so much of the IO Monad is specific to Haskell and lazy evaluation. Generally I think of it as Haskell's quirky way of handling the real world in a pure lazy mathematical construct and not something fundamental.