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The z in scalaz means this: it was early 2008 and I was working for a Java consultancy 
and so of course, I used the most appropriate tool for the job: scala. But it had 
*terrible* libraries, so I offered to fix those while also meeting my other objectives. 
Turns out that the Scala guys were extremely hostile to even half-decent libraries 
(and still are to this day). I still struggle to wrap my head around this sometimes.

Anyway, so I thought, well fuck it, I will just keep them to myself for now. My (awesome) 
employer had already agreed that we'd probably open-source such a thing, but I was 
concerned most about my primary goal. So then it came time to "name" this library. 
I had named it "scalax" simply so that I did not have the inclination to think of