Re: [Haskell-cafe] Just curios

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'..." Damned if I can remember who said that or where they said it though! >_<