Comment by armchairhacker
4 hours ago
I still don’t understand why it’s named from Gnosticism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(Gnosticism))
4 hours ago
I still don’t understand why it’s named from Gnosticism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(Gnosticism))
Monads got their name from monoids (being a monoid in the category of endofunctors). Monoids are equivalent to one-object categories, so the name uses the greek syllable "mono" for one.
It comes from Pythagoras, not Gnosticism
Yeah, would like to know as well. I think the applicative functor was originally call "Idiom", another weird name.