The results can be pretty unintuitive, especially when you get into the theoretical definitions of things like "identity", which are horribly important for really understanding how to use powerful tools like monads. Hence, the desire to reduce the amount of jargon required in order to enter the field...
My father did his dissertation on Leibniz, so I grew up with 'monad' as a household word. Not everyone can be so lucky :-)
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Date: 2010-06-21 11:25 pm (UTC)My father did his dissertation on Leibniz, so I grew up with 'monad' as a household word. Not everyone can be so lucky :-)