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		amelius on Jan 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001) > I really don't understand why people think monad is a "fancy scary term". The reason could be that the term "monad" comes from category theory, and that is a topic not everybody is too familiar with...

nbouscal on Jan 19, 2015 [–]

Lack of familiarity doesn't make it fancy, and for a software engineer it shouldn't make it scary either. One of the largest parts of our job is learning unfamiliar things.

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