Comment by isr
5 months ago
I think you're conflating "chaining function calls together" (aka "threading function calls") with unix pipelines, which are all about running separate programs in parallel & connecting their io streams together (with the kernel regulating the flow of data between them).
Threading functions together is basically about being able to write
read -> eval -> print -> loop
rather than:
(loop (print (eval (read))))
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