[amelius]

> I really don't understand why people think monad is a "fancy scary term".

The reason could be that the term "monad" comes from category theory, and that is a topic not everybody is too familiar with...

[nbouscal]

Lack of familiarity doesn't make it fancy, and for a software engineer it shouldn't make it scary either. One of the largest parts of our job is learning unfamiliar things.