[Haskell] Who brought the monad to us?

[Ben Lippmeier]

Wolfgang,
I thing that Eugenio Moggi was the first to combine monads from category 
theory with the lambda calculus.

Check out:
Computational Lambda Calculus and Monads, Eugenio Moggi, 1988
http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MoggiE/

It's citeseer page is at:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/275817.html


Ben.


Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is it right to say that Philip Wadler was the one who invented monadic I/O or 
> were there others who did so together with Wadler? I need this for my 
> thesis. :-)
> 
> Best wishes,
> Wolfgang
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