It appears I have subconsciously plagiarized something I must've read a long time ago? Well I'm citing that blog then.
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Prabhakar Ragde <plra...@uwaterloo.ca>wrote: > Stephen Chang wrote: > > Reminds me of this: >> http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and- >> mostly-wrong.html >> >> 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?" >> > > Philip Wadler retro-legitimized this quote by saying it during a panel > discussion at the Haskell Symposium 2013 (affiliated with ICFP), which made > my whole month. --PR > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >
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