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by _verandaguy 15 hours ago
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).
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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