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%2Ehask... :-)