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I still don’t understand why it’s named from Gnosticism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(Gnosticism) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(Gnosticism))
by armchairhacker 6mo ago
I still don’t understand why it’s named from Gnosticism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(Gnosticism) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(Gnosticism))
- urxvtcd 6mo agoYeah, would like to know as well. I think the applicative functor was originally call "Idiom", another weird name.
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- yccs27 6mo agoMonads got their name from monoids (being a monoid in the category of endofunctors). Monoids are equivalent to one-object categories, so the name uses the greek syllable "mono" for one.
- intrinsicallee 6mo agoIt comes from Pythagoras, not Gnosticism