[icc97]

> to me it holds a lot of emotional value

For me too. I had some experience of FP and was also a PHP programmer. It's one of the funniest programming books I've ever read, references to Avril Lavigne amongst category theory appeals to my sort, but clearly it's not a book for everyone.

So I found it fun to learn and the concept of Applicative Functors in between Monoids and Monads has stuck. As well as the examples of monads, such as walking on a tight rope with birds landing either side.

I'm still not doing pure FP and so I forget much of the content, but its a pleasure to pick up and re-read.