[Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

> If I see Monoid I know what it is, if I didn't know I could just look
> on Wikipedia.

And if you're a typical programmer who is now learning Haskell, this will 
likely make you want to run screaming and definitely be hard to 
understand. We at least need a description that's aimed at people who 
probably don't consider themselves any flavour of mathematician, however 
amateur. One that, while giving the definition, concentrates significantly 
on intuition.

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