funny: the Almighty Monad
Bernard James POPE
bjpop@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Wed, 8 May 2002 18:19:07 +1000 (EST)
Hi all,
Next time someone asks you "What is a Monad?", just point
them at this page:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10447b.htm
My favourite quote is:
"in the letters of the Christian Platonist Synesius,
God is described as the Monad of Monads."
For those who can't be bothered looking, the page is
part of a Catholic Encyclopedia, and it describes
in much detail some rather interesting aspects of the
word Monad that I didn't know before. Its even quite
insightful.
Cheers,
Bernie
PS
Should rename unsafePerformIO to sinfulPerformIO?