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by Octoth0rpe 13 hours ago
wow, that caused me quite a bit of confusion

> Haskell Free Library

Has zero to do with haskell the language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Free_Library_and_Opera...

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Believe it or not, the library predates the understanding of monads as a mathematical concept! Though it can be argued it is an example of a functor (the library is mapped over two countries).
A library is just a manuscript depository in the category of lending institutions.
> Though it can be argued it is an example of a functor (the library is mapped over two countries).

Now that's a special kind of joke I can only find on HackerNews