[nuancebydefault]

'Weirdness' is, as this conversation confirms, in the eye if the beholder. I _find_ ruby weird and non-intuitive.

[cess11]

It's a claim that monads are somehow supernatural, twists of reality, which is obviously not the case since a lot of people who have never learnt the word monad are using them daily in the form of Optional style types and lists and so on.