Tony Morris

@jroper @darinmorrison @brikis98 neither is polymorphism, recursion, or tail call until they learn them. Why is it different with monad?

@runT1ME @jroper @darinmorrison All of those words have a clear connection to the underlying concept. Monad does not.

@brikis98 @jroper @darinmorrison anecdotal. I certainly didn't know what they meant before I was taught. Same with Monad.

@runT1ME @jroper @darinmorrison So you think it would be ok to call them "foo", "bar", and "baz", so long as you can learn them?

@brikis98 @jroper @darinmorrison I did not say names should be arbitrary, and Monad is not. It is simply unfamiliar.

@runT1ME Simon Peyton Jones said as much himself: "Our biggest mistake was using the scary term monad". http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/haskell-retrospective/HaskellRetrospective.pdf … …

@brikis98 @runT1ME He is wrong. The problem is scared people, like yourself, who cannot be appeased by any means.