Reminds me of the Haskell entry on the Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages [0]. "1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jon

Reminds me of the Haskell entry on the Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages [0]. "1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, Ashton Kutcher, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals creates Haskell, a pure, non-strict, functional language. Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"" Math people: "What if we made software code more like mathematical proofs?" Idk. What if you had dated before age 38? [0] http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...