Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-Cafe Digest, Vol 217, Issue 16

On Sep 17, 2021, at 3:50 AM, Tom Ellis wrote:

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 01:43:01PM +0900, Michael Turner wrote:

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I finally got (most of?) what monads really mean for practical programming when none other than Simon Peyton-Jones said F# called a very similar construct "workflow," a word he likes.

Was it literally just a single sentence introducing a new word for a concept that made you "get it"? Could you elaborate? This is really quite remarkable.

For me, coming from a mostly Java background (but with a healthy dollop of functional programming thrown in the mix -- but no Haskell), the phrase that unlocked monads was "programmable semicolon". Richard