[Haskell-cafe] Haskell-Cafe Digest, Vol 217, Issue 16

[Tom Ellis]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 01:43:01PM +0900, Michael Turner wrote:
> I finally got (most of?) what monads really mean for practical
> programming when none other than Simon Peyton-Jones said F# called a
> very similar construct "workflow," a word he likes.

Was it literally just a single sentence introducing a new word for a
concept that made you "get it"?  Could you elaborate?  This is really
quite remarkable.

Tom