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In <a href="https://medium.com/@sinisalouc/demystifying-the-monad-in-scala-cc716bb6f534#.1rcp1f12c" target="_blank">one of my earlier articles</a> I tried to explain monads in an approachable way. Here’s an attempt to do the same for some other members of the same family — functors and applicative functors. Even though concepts and principles explained here are general in functional programming, mild accent will be (as usual) on Scala.