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?