I remember being stuck on Haskell lenses for a while, until I asked the brilliant Scott Wlaschin during a speakers' dinner in Lithuania to explain lenses in lay

I remember being stuck on Haskell lenses for a while, until I asked the brilliant Scott Wlaschin during a speakers' dinner in Lithuania to explain lenses in layman's terms to me, to which he simply replied "it's just like property getters and setters". Short, to the point, and I immediately understood the core value prop. There's of course a lot more to it, but in essence that's what it's about...