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Getting through the first monads chapter

Monoids!

- I/O is an interesting exception to the functional programming. Dealt with in an interesting way.
- solving problems shows how to take all we've learned so far to actually solve some problems.
- Applicative Functors mostly went over my head. Will need to revisit once I do some Haskell coding.

I/O and the impurity of it all

Been reading through this in preparation for using Haskell to tackle the 2016 problem set in Advent of Code. Loving the style even though this language is a real tangle from the imperative languages I've been using since the 90s.