[the_af]

> '"Monad" seems to be similarly confused'

In most cases Monad goes the opposite direction than REST: most people discover that yes, what they've been writing is a monad, they just didn't know it. Conversely, most people are told that no, they are not doing REST right, because REST is actually about <something else> ;)

[marcosdumay]

Monad is a scary name for a very simple thing, while REST is a very simple name for something that is probably scary, because I don't think I have ever seen it.