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Great article! Also, I was surprised at how short and readable the original paper was. This is a really nice follow up. I only recently started learning Haskel
by dhotson 9y ago
Great article! Also, I was surprised at how short and readable the original paper was. This is a really nice follow up.
I only recently started learning Haskell seriously, and it was surprising to learn that “Applicative” is a more recent discovery.
- danharaj 9y agoTo be precise, Applicative was known for quite some time by mathematicians as "lax monoidal functor". That this concept is useful for structuring programs is the recent discovery. Even in the last 10 years we've learned a lot about functional programming and I'm sure in the next 10 years we'll learn a lot more that really changes the way we approach it.