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Re:How it feels to join an all-Haskell startup by danidiaz on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:05AM (#9704431)
The use of Applicative is actually an attempt at clarity, by restricting the kinds of things that the code can actually do.

As it name implies, Applicative is a kind of "effectful application". There have been proposals to implement a more natural syntax that makes the connection more clear.

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