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Monads (infosec.pub)
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[–] bss03 2 points 5 hours ago

http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html

It's a "programmable semicolon" or "decorated-function composition". I think most people that are confused about it, are trying to make it be more meaningful than it is. Haskell (?) just grabbed a math name so they'd have one word for it, because it's a useful class name there.