TITLE: A Monad Sighting in Pop Literature
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: August 30, 2014  7:43 AM
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<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 Lab experiments are invaluable in the hard sciences, in part because
 neutrinos and monads don't change their behavior when they are being
 watched; but humans do.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

Several things ran through my mind when I read this sentence.
<UL>
<LI> "Monads don't change their behavior when watched."  Wow.
     The authors of this book must know a little functional
     programming.  </LI>
<BR/>
<LI> Monads mentioned in the same sentence as neutrinos, which
     are fundamental particles of the universe?  Oh, no.  This
     will only make the smug functional programming weenies
     more smug.  </LI>
<BR/>
<LI> Monads are part of the "hard sciences"?  These authors
     really <EM>do</EM> get functional programming!  </LI>
<BR/>
<LI> This sentence appears in a chapter called "The Three
     Hardest Words in the English Language".  That joke writes
     itself.  </LI>
<BR/>
<LI> Maybe I shouldn't be surprised to see this sentence.  The
     book called <EM>Think Like a Freak</EM>. </LI>
</UL>

I kid my monad-loving friends; I kid.  The rest of the book is
pretty good, too.
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