I fucking knew it, @nealstephenson is a Haskellser.pic.twitter.com/ZcyWkY3kvJ
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Little known fact is that Haskell remained of purely theoretical interest until Leibniz discovered a method of describing i/o operations with a purely functional framework and published it in his 1714 manuscript ‘monadology’
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The symbols >>= and return were popularised by Leibniz but few realise that Newton had earlier developed an alternative notation using the symbols ‘join’ and ‘unit’ — the argument over whose notation was superior divided functional programmers across Europe for decades.
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This needs to be an E! Entertainment Special.
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