Re: [Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

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. -- flippa@flippac.org "I think you mean Philippa. I believe Phillipa is the one from an alternate universe, who has a beard and programs in BASIC, using only gotos for control flow." -- Anton van Straaten on Lambda the Ultimate