I suspect this is because Haskell is proudly a "research"/bleeding-edge language. It's distinctly _not_ a Java or a .Net and that's ok, as it's not trying to fu

I suspect this is because Haskell is proudly a "research"/bleeding-edge language. It's distinctly _not_ a Java or a .Net and that's ok, as it's not trying to fulfill the same role. Things in Haskell have names from theoretical computer science, because people are using it to express and experiment with those ideas - they don't need or want to spend undue time describing a monad or a functor for the 15-millionth time, they want to use them in some new cutting-edge way. I once saw (on this website) Haskell described as "the primordial soup of programming language features". Wild and weird ideas get tried-out in Haskell, and then 5-10 years later someone takes the lessons learned from the evolution of some feature in Haskell and brings it to mainstream programming in some elegant, distilled form. And I think that's super cool.