> Are you seriously going to argue that those concepts are equally arcane to somebody not familiar with the underlying paradigm? Most definitely! I have tried

> Are you seriously going to argue that those concepts are equally arcane to somebody not familiar with the underlying paradigm? Most definitely! I have tried to teach C# to a non-programmer friend of mine and his brain exploded when I tried to teach him about classes. However I have taught a few programmer friends what a Monad is in a few minutes. The problem with the Wikipedia page is that it is correct but targeted at somebody who understands category theory. Which is useless if you just want to learn how to use it in (say) Haskell.