[pauldirac137]

This post is talking about monads in the context of programming languages (specifically the Haskell programming language), NOT in the context of philosophy. The programming-monad concept in turn is derived from the concept of monad in category theory. For more information, google "monad Haskell" or "monad category theory".

[pauldirac137]

Note also that this is "Hacker News", so a computer science orientation shouldn't be surprising.