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28: Richard Eisenberg

The Haskell Interlude

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The Unrelated Uses of Functors in OCaml

In OCaml, a functor is essentially a module with some missing pieces. And so to use the module, you have to apply the functor to another module. Haskell has something called applicative functors and those are also completely unrelated. But they both came from the same category theory term now.

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