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Historical correction: the monad idea originated with Eugenio Moggi not Philip Wadler.
by davidmathers 16y ago
Historical correction: the monad idea originated with Eugenio Moggi not Philip Wadler.
- Tycho 16y agoI don't think a correction is necessary, the article just says Wadler 'took advantage of the monad pattern to solve this problem' (the problem of Haskell needing to side-effects eventually to be of any practical use). Implying the monad idea already existed.
- davidmathers 16y agoRight, the monad concept was developed in the 60s. Moggi applied it to computation in the late 80s.