Computer scientists, on the other hand, like borrowing metaphors from other fields and real life. Words like “computer” and “printer”, for example, used to refer to jobs that people did. A bundle of wires that “transport” data is called a “bus”. You view your data through “windows”. Data that has a rooted branching-type structure is called a “tree”. My personal favourite is removing intermediate trees, which we call “deforestation”.
— Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” « blog :: Brent -> [String]
