Wow, that's a bad monad explanation if I ever saw one. Maybe he should have spent the time wasted on inaccurate burrito analogies on actually explaining the slide that contained all the information but was only shown for ten seconds. And what kind of idiot would try to explain a concept that is frequently used in Haskell because its syntax is so incredibly nice in JavaShit)]]};};)};)]};?
Douglas Crockford is landing on my personal list of presenters to avoid. If I want to hear about burritos, I'm going to my local Mexican.