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It sounds unrelated to the monads popularized by Haskell tutorials. Naming coincidence or am I missing something?
by itishappy 2y ago
It sounds unrelated to the monads popularized by Haskell tutorials. Naming coincidence or am I missing something?
- odo1242 2y agoNaming coincidence, they are in fact unrelated.
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- skruger 2y agoAPL's use of 'monad' predates Haskell's existence by decades.
- 082349872349872 2y ago...and Leibniz's "windowless monads" (all three concepts are pairwise distinct, related solely by the greek prefix for 'single') predates APL and Haskell by centuries.
- solidsnack9000 2y agoA `monad` in Category Theory (which is where Haskell gets them from, ultimately) is a single-argument functor and two natural transformations, so there probably is a through-line here in terms of one-argument function-likes.