[Haskell] Who brought the monad to us?

[Wolfgang Jeltsch]

Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 12:12 schrieben Sie:
> Wolfgang [and Phil]
>
> As others have noted, Moggi had the key idea of using monads to support
> the semantics of programming languages.  Wadler was clearly the first to
> have the amazing insight that monads could be a *programming* idiom too,
> and gave several examples of their use, including lists, state monads,
> continuations, and exceptions I believe.  I was working with Phil at
> Glasgow at the time, and I think I may have been the one to suggest
> taking a monadic approach to *I/O* and FFI.  But that's unimportant:
> what is certain is that our co-authored paper in POPL'93 was the first
> time the idea was published.
>
> Simon

Hello Simon,

thank you for your answer. Were you also the first one who had the idea to use 
monads for mutable variables and mutable arrays?

Best wishes,
Wolfgang