On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Paul Hudak wrote: > > As reported in the recent HOPL paper, /A History of Haskell/, Haskell > > Brooks Curry actually didn't like his first name! I learned this when > > I visited his wife, Virginia Curry, at the time when we decided to > > name a language after her husband. > > Yes... I recall reading that somewhere. (Irony, eh? Name something after > somebody and find they hated the name anyway...) > > > I *also* distinctly recall reading somewhere the following words: > > "Of course, our biggest mistake was using the word 'monad'. We should > have called it 'warm fuzzy thing'..."
This is no longer a problem, because you can visit a web with (almost) no monads: http://saxophone.jpberlin.de/MonadTransformer?source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehaskell%2Eorg%2Fhaskellwiki%2FCategory%3AMonad :-) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
