I was trying to simplify to get a cross the point that the Haskell ecosystem contains small and very well factored abstractions, without busting out the mathjax and technical terms. I find the key understanding of Monoids (which lets me use them and gives me a useful intuition upon seeing one) to be "Oh this is just combining these things together" - which I explain to newcomers as "basically concatenation".
It's always hard to pick the correct amount of correctness to use :-)
I was trying to simplify to get a cross the point that the Haskell ecosystem contains small and very well factored abstractions, without busting out the mathjax and technical terms. I find the key understanding of Monoids (which lets me use them and gives me a useful intuition upon seeing one) to be "Oh this is just combining these things together" - which I explain to newcomers as "basically concatenation".
It's always hard to pick the correct amount of correctness to use :-)