Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 12:12 schrieben Sie: > Wolfgang [and Phil] > > As others have noted, Moggi had the key idea of using monads to support > the semantics of programming languages. Wadler was clearly the first to > have the amazing insight that monads could be a *programming* idiom too, > and gave several examples of their use, including lists, state monads, > continuations, and exceptions I believe. I was working with Phil at > Glasgow at the time, and I think I may have been the one to suggest > taking a monadic approach to *I/O* and FFI. But that's unimportant: > what is certain is that our co-authored paper in POPL'93 was the first > time the idea was published. > > Simon
Hello Simon, thank you for your answer. Were you also the first one who had the idea to use monads for mutable variables and mutable arrays? Best wishes, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
