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> ...functional languages), have abstractions perhaps most well suited to "pipeline" situations - take an input, apply transforms A, B, C, ... in sequence until the output is returns

That's very true. Glad to find out I'm not the only one who perceive it this way.

This is the reason I believe multi-paradigm languages are more practical(or better suited to solve real-world problems) - as they allow you to utilize different approaches for different problems. At the same time, being too wide/generic seems to lead to lacking of some expressiveness single-paradigm languages could provide (like lack of native pointfree style).




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